Student ranks thinning for blogging Pa. teacher

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I prefer the Fark headline:


Personally I'd like my kid to be taught by a teacher with the intellectual honesty to call her students "frightfully dim" in her blog


DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — More than 200 parents have told a Pennsylvania school district they don't want their children taught by a teacher who called students "frightfully dim" and "disengaged, lazy whiners" on her personal blog.


Central Bucks East High School Superintendent Robert Laws say he expects the district to get "a lot more requests" from parents who want to keep their children away from English teacher Natalie Munroe.


The Doylestown Intelligencer reports 62 requests came from parents whose children were scheduled to be in Munroe's classes. District officials had estimated Munroe would have 90 students in her three classes.


Munroe was suspended in February after district officials learned of her blog.
Laws says a substitute will likely be hired to take on the students who won't be taught by Monroe. Classes begin Tuesday.


Student ranks thinning for blogging Pa. teacher - Yahoo! News
 
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Honesty does not pay, when you're talking about people's kids.

I don't think I'd have an issue with that teacher.

A few years ago, my daughter came home with some 'C's on her report card, completely out of the blue - her marks on tests and assignments were all fine, all of a sudden, she gets Cs. We met with the teacher, in some shock, wondering what we were missing. He smiled, and explained that if other kids in the class did what she did, they'd get As or Bs. But he felt that she was doing as little as possible, expending the least amount of effort that she could, in order to slide by.

We took a day or two to fully grasp that, and my daughter realized what he was saying. After that, she worked hard, and for the last few years she has gotten great marks, and even got an award for being the top student in her school.

I don't mind a teacher being honest, if they are trying to be helpful, not just to complain.
 
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