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Should Teachers Be Allowed to Hate Blog About Their Students?

Good has an interesting post about a teacher who posted her opinions about her students on her blog.

Natalie Munroe, a 30-year-old Philadelphia-area high school English teacher took her extremely candid commentary about students to her public blog—and of course a student discovered it. Munroe says she didn’t do anything wrong, and claims her blog entries are free speech, but last week the Central Bucks School District suspended her with pay and officials want to fire her.

My initial reaction is that she’s violated a trust, similar to attorney-client or psychologist-client although not a legal trust, a social trust. I asked my wife Anne who’s a teacher and she agrees that this teacher went over the line by publishing her opinions in a public place, even if she was naive about the fact that her students might someday read those opinions and figure out that she was talking about them.

Another aspect of this story is that many people involved with social media have no clue that publishing on the internet is not like venting at the local bar. Still, most who are clueless about this are young people, an adult, even one who may not be all that tech savvy should know better.