Add a field for Old First Name and Old Last Name in LSI and/or STU
Add a field for Old First Name and Old Last Name in the LSI table, for reference, when there has been a legal name change.
Diana Taylor
shared this idea
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Karen Ellington
commented
We have more and more students with legal name changes. It is essential that we have fields to be able to verify and query students previous names. This is mirroring the Staff Previous Name Fields.
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Vicki Ruby
commented
You could use the Alias fields however, they do print on rosters so perhaps these fields should be hidden and a nickname field added rather than an old last name old forst name field. You could also make a note in the comment section of the Demographic screen.
We change the names in Demographics when a legal name change occurs -
Rosemarie Keene
commented
Yes! We have had students go through a name change due to adoption or gender transitioning. The idea was that adding the alias would make it visible to families, which can be triggering. Example, if you were to add John Smith as an alias to the name Jon Proctor, the display name would read Jon Proctor (John Smith).
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Karen Ellington
commented
I just had another student with adoption orders - there is no place to keep the student's former name for historical data - her cumulative records contain the previous name, so there needs to be some way to cross-reference, just like there is in the staff records.
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Karen Ellington
commented
Please add fields for student previous name for those who have had legal name changes, and make it searchable. There is no place to cross reference when students have legal name changes causing confusion and duplicate records being created instead of merged.
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Loren Sorensen
commented
Would love this as long as the old name works in the search :)
