What's in a name?

Or, perhaps, when is a name a dangerous label? Quote of this week on matters of identity must go to Dr Peter Kraska or Eastern Kentucky University, commenting on the death of (yet another) ordinary citizen at the hands of an over zealous military style SWAT team:

"The problem is that when you talk about the war on this and the war on that, and police officers see themselves as soldiers, then the civilian becomes the enemy."

The full story from the BBC is here.

Given what we know about self-fulfilling prophecies in educational and other contexts, that a child labelled by teachers or class mates as "dumb" (or whatever local term we like to use) , is most likely to become a low achiever, isn't it time to stop worrying and start making some changes???