Wife was a teacher for 40 years. She never had Việt students in her 1st,2nd grade but most of the other teachers who had Việt students came to her to ask how to pronounce the names. Some of them got it right, even with proper Vietnamese pronunciation. Some were incapable of pronouncing anything with ‘foreign” spelling.
I’m not religious. but reading you experiences brought tears to my eye. There is till good in the world, but it is being suppressed. C’mon, Freepers, let us try harder,