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A judgment you make based on?

If her students were able to find it, it wasn't very "private."

If she wishes to voice her private opinion, she should restrict herself to a medium where her opinions are much more likely to remain "private." She can whine, b***h, and moan all she wants on the telephone or over her private e-mail, but posting on a blog that her students were obviously able to read without much trouble was not "private."

It's highly unprofessional to rag on one's students in public. It makes little difference if she named a particular student or not. Her position as a teacher demands more discretion and a bit more class. Various careers restrict the luxury of being able to shoot your mouth off, or act like a twit, where the taxpayers can hear/see you; teaching happens to be one of them. Police officers, doctors, soldiers, and public officials are others.

I sincerely hope she gets her wrist slapped and can exercise better judgement in the future.

I would've waited till I get tenure to complain to the world on my blog.

She intended it to be a private blog, she was just incompetent(arguably not incompetent just ignorant) about implementing her intentions. It was her understanding that she was speaking in a private manner to friends and family. A teacher should be able to criticizing her/his students. In whatever manner is both fitting and humane.(meaning no physical or severe emotional trauma) I can see pride getting hurt by her comments but what serious harm has been done? Perhaps her students know how she feels about the majority of them now perhaps this will motivate, there is no justification for silencing her, especially when it is arguably a needed power in her position. Discretion about what? She is there to teach discretion never taught anyone skills on its own(aka has never helped the learning process in its application) so there is no reason to espouse it as a virtue for teachers. She did not act like a twit, she was voicing criticism in what she thought was a private setting, and it arguably should have been heard by the students anyways.

Doesn't matter. It was posted publicly despite her intentions. You can't un-ring a bell. She was being careless and she got caught.



A teacher has no business publicly berating her students. It's crass and unprofessional. A teacher has about as much business berating her students as a doctor does making fun of his patients.



She's shaken public confidence in the school district; furthermore, her ability to teach effectively and keep control of her students in the classroom will be compromised. And, as a taxpayer, I don't want her blasting her opinions on "today's youth" in our children's faces. She would do well to keep her personal views on such matters to herself, or stop taking my tax money.



Berating students is not a "needed power," especially not berating students where the entire community can read it. If she can't motivate her pupils without resorting to verbal abuse, she should find a new career.



She needs discretion as a public servant. Public servants without discretion get fired. And rightly so. Anyone who doesn't understand this shouldn't be a public servant.



She acted like a massive twit, and the students do not "need" to be insulted or verbally abused. She behaved badly in public, which is a serious no-no when you're a teacher. She got canned, and she deserved it. Teachers who cannot maintain their professionalism, either through deliberate action or gross stupidity, need not be teachers. I hope she enjoys her new job at "Burger King" where she can be as crass as she wishes.