If a child is sensitive enough to be affected by where their name is in the alphabet, they're also going to be affected by their hair colour, height, and plenty of other things that nobody can change.

But you can change and vary the order in which children are listed and if there is no good reason to stick rigidly to alphabetical order - perhaps we shouldn't.

Then - no one will be adversely affected - no matter how statistically small Wolfgang judges the number of those individuals who are disadvantaged may be. If you are one of these - it does matter.

And if it can now so easily be avoided - perhaps it should be?