a special kind of loathing...

Feb 16, 2011 13:13

I added that bit about yearbook to my blog post earlier today because seeing my old friend and classmate made those memories resurface.

A short time later, Yahoo news called my attention to a story about a “teacher” who bad-mouthed her kids on an open blog This morning, I was picking at a scab. After reading this article, the old wound just ( Read more... )

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sara_super_id February 16 2011, 20:47:14 UTC
I read up on the article, she wrote anonymously, didn't list the school or single out particular children.

However, I still think it is bad form and that she will get fired for it. I don't think it is a free speech issue. Free speech is not about employment--you don't have to keep someone who does not follow the code of conduct for your workplace. Freedom of speech is supposed to be about freedom from being jailed for your speech.

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sara_super_id February 16 2011, 20:48:19 UTC
Also, some of the meanest people I ever knew were teachers too. I was a child that was beaten by the other children and despised by my teachers for being strange and silly. It was a spirit killer.

These people should likewise lose their jobs.

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ladytairngire February 16 2011, 21:06:01 UTC
I think it's just plain awful for someone to be a teacher who doesn't love being a teacher.

There are plenty of jobs where you can go hate what you do without hurting anyone other than the poor bastards that get to spend the day near you. But kids deserve someone who wants to teach them. If you don't want to be there, you are hurting those kids.

I said something to that effect in the posts to that article. you should see the kind of vitriol I got from teachers as miserable as Ms. Munroe. They blame the kids. I think that's fucked up.

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ladytairngire February 16 2011, 21:02:15 UTC
she did not have her name attached to it, but it was not so anonymously that her student's couldn't find it - because they did, and they turned her in.

How are kids supposed to go to class and learn from someone who they know thinks of them in such terms?

And you raise a good point - free speech is one thing, but employees ARE expected to uphold a certain standard. The school has a right to nail her ass for that. Excellent.

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momma_lizzie February 17 2011, 12:49:24 UTC
I agree with you 100%. There honestly are some people that shouldn't teach. And I should know because I worked at a school for 2 years and saw EVERYTHING. I even saw teachers that went to school high as a kite. And seriously...if they can't work with children they should pursue something else because you really are molding young minds.

Also that teacher is an idiot for posting stuff without a lock key on her blog. I mean that's like basic of the basics...right? Sigh. Although God knows I had students that I couldn't stand but I talked to other teachers at school (that I could trust to keep quiet) about them and asked for suggestions on how to deal with them and find a way to teach them. Not post on a blog about it. There are certain things that you shouldn't blog about.

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ladytairngire February 17 2011, 12:56:28 UTC
God knows I had students that I couldn't stand but I talked to other teachers at school (that I could trust to keep quiet) about them and asked for suggestions on how to deal with them and find a way to teach them. See, that's what I'm talkin' about it ( ... )

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momma_lizzie February 17 2011, 13:38:05 UTC
I also meant to comment on what you said about teachers being cruel to you. I'm on that same boat chica. I never really met a teacher that I could call a friend. I was bullied at school by students and teachers. My teachers hated me because I was smarter than the other students (of course it didn't help me when I corrected teachers when they pronounced or wrote something incorrectly) but they should've nurtured my smarts instead of condemn me for it. Every time I raised my hand to answer a question ((knowing that I knew the answer)they would take the next student who would answer it incorrectly ( ... )

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