Apparently you can get in trouble for insulting someone using snarky quips—that is, if you’re a teacher and the insults you’re blogging are about your high school students.
Since 2005, Natalie Munroe has been an English teacher at Central Bucks East High School. She makes over $50,000 per year and by all counts she doesn’t seem to enjoy her job or her students.
How do we know about her apparent discontent? Well, Ms. Munroe happens to have a very dangerous hobby – blogging.
“I’m being a renegade right now, living on the edge and, um, blogging AT work. However, as I’m blogging about work stuff, I give myself a free pass of conscience. “
Oh, Natalie when are you going to learn that blogging is a method the devil uses to mock and punish in an ironic fashion?
This week Natalie Munroe’s blog hobby made headlines because the ‘work stuff’ she was blogging about turned out to be her students. While she didn’t mention any names she didn’t have anything nice to say either.
In fact Munroe was quite critical of her students, using her English III Honors vocabulary to lambast her students’ work ethic, personality, attitude, and academic ability.
“My students are out of control. 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.”
It’s hard not to laugh at Munroe’s misfortune, because she’s obviously the rude, generally annoying whiner. She also isn’t the brightest bulb if she thought high school students weren’t Internet savvy enough to find her Blogger account.
Her most damning blog entry came when she was frustrated by the daunting task of having to write comments to accompany each student’s grade. Munroe was frustrated by the mindless ‘satisfactory’ or ‘outstanding’ comments so she decided to make a blog entry about what she would like to write in the comments section. Her little spat creativity accidentally helped toss her career in the garbage.
Here are ten of my favorites:
-A complete and utter jerk in all ways. Although academically ok, your child has no other redeeming qualities.
-Shy isn’t cute in 11th grade; it’s annoying. Must learn to advocate for himself instead of having Mommy do it.
-Gimme an A. I. R. H. E. A. D. What’s that spell? Your kid!
-Nowhere near as good as her sibling. Are you sure they’re related?
-Lazy asshole.
-Asshole.
-Just as bad as his sibling. Don’t you know how to raise kids?
-Rude, belligerent, argumentative fuck.
-Weirdest kid I’ve ever met.
-There’s no other way to say this: I hate your kid.
High school kids may not be the most inspired students in the world, but you can’t begin to comprehend how enterprising they can be when an authority figure issues unkind criticism upon them. They become straight up vindictive.
As of now Munroe is under investigation for her controversial blog entries, but I’d be shocked if she’s not fired. Because I know whoever was called a ‘rude, belligerent, argumentative, fuck’ by Munroe will make it rain fire and brimstone on her ass.
February 11, 2011 at 4:31 pm, Fah Fah Fah said:
Yeah but you avoid stating the obvious, which is that she is/was probably right about these kids, and the performance of the Philly school system as a whole. Sometimes you just have to call it as it is, that that generation of kids is a shitty bunch, by and large. Now a bunch of parents – too dumb/prideful to admit that they’ve fucked up and their kids are fucking up – are going to scream for this teacher’s scalp instead of stepping back and taking a critical look at the person they’ve raised.
I will never get sick of hearing my mom tell stories about teaching in inner-city Philly during the mid and late ’70s. I doubt much has changed.
February 11, 2011 at 6:04 pm, Anonymous said:
Just so you know, Fah Fah Fah, Central Bucks is FAR away from inner city Philadelphia (where I teach). In fact, she’s probably complaining because her students are from upper-middle class families and she feels that they act as if they have a sense of entitlement, not because their families are struggling with poverty and the issues that it brings.
That said, I have a blog and I would NEVER think of blasting my students or my parents on my blog. She made a stupid mistake and deserves whatever repercussions may ensue.
February 12, 2011 at 5:30 am, Teachbad Snooky said:
This a public school, right? As I understand it, those are run by the government. I’m pretty sure that whatever anybody thinks she deserves, her speech is protected by the First Amendment. I bet the people who suspened her are squirming right now, trying to figure out why. Did she say anything demonstrably untrue? Did she slander anybody? Did she make threats?
No? Then I think she walks away with a nice settlement.
teachbad.com
February 14, 2011 at 6:36 am, I hate your kids too said:
Her kids probably are stupid, annoying fucks, I don’t see any problem with what she said, most teenagers are worthless fucks nowadays anyway
February 16, 2011 at 3:03 pm, Anonymous said:
lol you’re probably a worthless fuck too
how ironic
February 16, 2011 at 3:03 pm, Anonymous said:
lol you’re probably a worthless fuck too
how ironic
February 16, 2011 at 3:03 pm, Anonymous said:
lol you’re probably a worthless fuck too
how ironic
February 14, 2011 at 1:40 pm, Mopardi said:
Since I personally know a high school teacher, I am totally aware of the disrespect, obnoxious behavior and foul language that these “young adults” display at school. She is a wonderful teacher, but ready to give up. This country is in big trouble. And it all started with “kids have rights too”.
February 25, 2011 at 4:20 pm, Anonymous said:
Want to read a real teacher’s blog? Then enjoy this one, A Dixie Diary, at http://www.adixiediary.com. The recent visit rate has been astonishing.
Actually published a few days ago, this unique teacher’s journal shows a different look at what happens in the schoolhouse … by a rookie teacher who loves his work and his students, but he expresses his thoughts and observations in a hugely different way than Mrs. Munroe. Sure, there are some intense moments, even some choice words, too, but mostly it’s world-class hilarious, heartwarming … like reading a good book. It’s the teacher’s blog we’ve been waiting for. It’s simply mesmerizing.