Some fellow teachers have asked me: "With all the problems of school, why worry about this name before the surname? At the bottom is an important thing ... "
Apart from the fact that use and teach the use of the name before the surname is something that costs nothing and is easy to do, as opposed to others which are expensive and difficult to make an application would be classified as follows under the heading benaltrismo and, as such, refused.
Anyway, I will try to indicate here a few reasons why but, in my opinion, this question is important, especially in schools. If you are a teacher, felt called upon directly.
1. If the call when you read the last names first names, the message they convey is that students are not people, but only items in a collection organized bureaucratically (indrappellate people, as he calls Alfonso Leone).
2. If you ask students to write full name on protocol sheet of the task, to be facilitated into the sheets, conveys the message that is more important than your personal comfort of the grammatical rules (which require that the name is put first). If you want the name catches your eye, you can ask to be written with capital letters after their name.
3. If you do not correct the error of the writer's last name before the name, ask yourself why tolerate this and fix it but others, such as a subjunctive wrong, an apostrophe plus, etc.. Where is the consistency?
4. If you call your students by last name and first name, and instead present you with your name, cite authors and historical figures with name, etc.. convey the message that your students are of a lower category, they belong to those who do not have the right to have the name before the surname.
5. If you present yourself with full name, well, 'you know ... wrong. Realize that much information and habits are passed on by example. View blog www.ilnomevaprimadelcognome.blogspot.com for more information about it.
6. If you say to your students that the signatures must write the name of the family name first, know that some interpret this as "only in signatures on behalf of the family name goes first," while it is not that the name is always before the surname, in all occasions.
7. Teaching that the name goes before the surname, also teaches the respect of standards, which require this form (eg in addresses, business cards computer, etc.)..
8. Pay attention to this teaching to your students what to avoid bad impression when they enter the working world, where someone these things known and notes.
9. When your students will work in an office, writing reports, will prepare press releases, planning activities, software development, etc.. produce better documents.
10. This is also a way to transmit the attention to small things, but sometimes have big meanings.
