What??!!



postsecret.com

 This postcard appeared last week (1/22/2012) on postsecret.com, and my reaction to it is the same as any other time I hear of any kind of innappropriate relationships between students and teachers.  WHAT WERE THEY (THE ADULTS) THINKING!!!!????

A simple google search will turn up loads of evidence of both male and female teachers who carried on sexual relationships with their current students.  If these teachers cannot find a date in any of the usual ways available and legal in 2012, and choose to resort to their own students as a pool of available candidates for a date, could they do all of us a favor and PLEASE FIND A NEW PROFESSION?

Comments?...

Does anyone under 33 know this guy?  Or has the movie been played enough on cable that age doesn't matter?



Have you ever worked with someone as dried up and in need of retirement as this guy? Or were you a student with a crusty teacher?

I think I should make a video of myself for my blog, saying "Comments?... Comments?  Comments?..."

Bad Idea: Unprofessional Online Behavior

Late last winter, I read online about Natalie Munroe, a Philadelphia area teacher who blogged quite negatively about her school district and students and was subsequently asked to leave her job.  At the time, I thought that her behavior was thoughtless and very unprofessional, and that she was yet another public story portraying the teaching profession in a bad light.

This week, she is back in the news, and it sounds like she will be back in the classroom for the new school year. She also has resumed blogging, and I find her writing to be very self-absorbed, self-rightous, and neither interesting nor entertaining.