Pa. teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog

[Blake]

FEASTERVILLE, Pa. – A high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia who was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges "disengaged, lazy whiners" is driving a debate by daring to ask: Why are today's students unmotivated — and what's wrong with calling them out?

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"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."

And in another post, Munroe — who is more than eight months pregnant — quotes from the musical "Bye Bye Birdie": "Kids! They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs. Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy LOAFERS."

She also listed some comments she wished she could post on student evaluations, including: "I hear the trash company is hiring"; "I called out sick a couple of days just to avoid your son"; and "Just as bad as his sibling. Don't you know how to raise kids?"

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Sandi Jacobs, vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said school districts are navigating uncharted territory when it comes to teachers' online behavior. Often, districts want teachers to have more contact with students and their families, yet give little guidance on how teachers should behave online even as students are more plugged in than they've ever been.

"This is really murky stuff," she said. "When you have a teacher using their blog to berate their students, maybe that's a little less murky. But the larger issue is, I think, districts are totally unprepared to deal with this."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_hi_te/us_teacher_suspended_blog



when will teachers learn

[Bender]

"I called out sick a couple of days just to avoid your son"; and "Just as bad as his sibling. Don't you know how to raise kids?"
lol, those are great...

[Bartleby]

She should create a website: mystudentsucks.com

[4>0rings]

She should create a website: mystudentsucks.com
Seriously that would be epic, so many students would cry.

[ElNono]

Hope the 1st amendment doesn't end at the school's door...

[boutons_deux]

"1st amendment"

:lol

When you work in an organization, and not just the military, you have no "God-given, inalieable" rights. You have whatever rights that organization allows, and you have no appeal to government justice. The orgs, private or public, work constantly to reduce your rights. The org is everything, YOU are shit.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

The more nerves she strikes the better. :tu

[Winehole23]

Lazy whining about lazy whiners. Ingenious.

[PublicOption]

thats why my kids are going to private school.

[Blake]

Lazy whining about lazy whiners. Ingenious.

pretty much

[ElNono]

Lazy whining about lazy whiners. Ingenious.

Why was she suspended though?

[Winehole23]

Grounds for the suspension are not mentioned in the OP.

[Winehole23]

http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2011/02/16/age_has_no_season/doc4d5c4d39b39bb523300675.txt

[ElNono]

Some more more details here:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/28/2011/february/15/blogging-teacher-blogging-again-1.html

Looks like she was escorted out and is suspended with pay...

[George Gervin's Afro]

But its the teachers unions

[coyotes_geek]

Having a sister and mother with teaching backgrounds, I sympathize with said teacher. But you've got to be smart enough to know that ranting about it to the whole world via the internet stands a good chance of being a bad career move for you.

[Winehole23]

Depending on how she plays it and whether she has any game, she could land on her feet. Better write that book quick, though.

[Blake]

Depending on how she plays it and whether she has any game, she could land on her feet. Better write that book quick, though.

:lol was just thinking that.

Cash in quickly. The 15 minute clock is running.

[coyotes_geek]

Depending on how she plays it and whether she has any game, she could land on her feet. Better write that book quick, though.


:lol was just thinking that.

Cash in quickly. The 15 minute clock is running.

:lol She can team up with that flight attended who told all the passengers to F off for a book signing tour.

[mrsmaalox]

"While I never in a million years would have guessed that this many people would ever see my words, and I didn't even intend them to, I stand by what I wrote and I think it's good that people are aware now," Natalie Munroe wrote on her blog Saturday morning.

Brilliant :rolleyes

[Wild Cobra]

I don't know who's side to come down on this. I guess it amounts to if the blog was anonymous or not. Any employer can expect the conduct of their employees to be regulated when it addresses concerns at work. However, when I first heard this story, I think yesterday morning, I got the impression the blog was anonymous. No students were named, nor was the school named.

[Blake]

No students were named, nor was the school named.

that saves her from possible lawsuits from the students' parents but it might not save her job.

if the school fires her, I've got no problem with it.

[DarkReign]

Bummer when the truth gets you fired, but it can and routinely does.

[ElNono]

if the school fires her, I've got no problem with it.

The school might have a problem though...

[Blake]

The school might have a problem though...

maybe, although I'm guessing that the school is going to make sure they have the proper grounds to fire her.

[Wild Cobra]

maybe, although I'm guessing that the school is going to make sure they have the proper grounds to fire her.
That's usually the case when someone is on a paid suspension.

[Stringer_Bell]

So the kids are whiny, disrespectful little shits just like their parents? What's new? What did she say that was so controversial? It all starts with the parents, no wonder they are butthurt.

If she was so easily identifiable from her blog, they should fire her, but not because of what she said but because she doesn't know how to cover her ass.

[Blake]

That's usually the case when someone is on a paid suspension.

exactly

[MannyIsGod]

Pretty god damn stupid teacher. You have to whine about whiny students in a fucking blog? Lame as hell.