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Teacher's Comments (c & p) Teacher whose barbed blog made headlines is fired By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY A Pennsylvania high school teacher whose barbed blog posts about her students caused a national stir last year, has been fired for "unsatifsactory performance," The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Natalie Munroe, an English teacher at Central Bucks High School East, was fired Tuesday by the Central Bucks school board in a 7-0 vote, the newspaper says. In a statement, the board president said Munroe had been experiencing "performance difficulties well before her blog became an issue." In anticipation of the dismissal, Munroe had filed suit against the board last week, claiming it had violated her constitutional right to free speech "by harassing and retaliating against her." Munroe was suspended in February 2011 -- and later reinstated --after her blog posts, which referred to some students as "dunderheads" or "ratlike," became widely circulated. "My students are out of control," Munroe, who has taught 10th, 11th and 12th grades, wrote in one post. "They are rude, disengaged, lazy whiners. They curse, discuss drugs, talk back, argue for grades, complain about everything, fancy themselves entitled to whatever they desire, and are just generally annoying." Although the blog, which Munroe had been writing since 2009, did not name her school or identify any students by name, it did carry her photograph. Three weeks ago, after receiving her third unsatisfactory performance evaluation, Munroe wrote in a post that she had been "set up." An excerpt: The issue with my job is bigger than me. It's about freedom of speech. It's about having integrity and not compromising the truth. It's about the downward spiral of our education system and the low value that people place on education. It's about making people accountable. It's about standing up for personal beliefs and not apologizing when those beliefs aren't popular. - There's a Truth out there somewhere! |
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6/27/2012 5:30 pm |
Best to stick with the simple rule of cyber space. If you don't want someone/ anyone to read it don't post it. Once something is posted you have no control over it's use. Spiritwoman ^i^
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6/28/2012 5:38 am |
The description of her students is not unusual for teachers all over this nation , even in the very wealthy areas, they are just smart enough not to put it in a blog. Our youth are impressionable, taking their cues from the so called "leaders", the general public, T.V., and us. When our national leaders across ages are bullying and bellicose; the general public that support these leaders are bullying, aggressive, bellicose, walking around in public with guns, screaming out interrupting speakers as they try to speak; T.V. programming is full of reality T.V. that promotes, discord, drinking, teenage pregnancy, 72 day marriages, and they mimick the hate they see spewed out in their homes toward people different from them, what in the world should anyone expect? I recall teaching my son everyday etiquette starting at age 4 as he was growing up,e.g. pull a lady's chair out at dinner, open the door for a lady, give an old person your seat if they are standing, always say please and thank you, always say excuse me if you interrupt someone. My friends laughed at me saying, people will think he's a loser doing all that. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page: St. Augustine
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If focused only on the matter addressed in the OP, are we seeing a natural outcome of a system where parents authority and responsibility is usurped by the public sector with each blaming the other? - There's a Truth out there somewhere!
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