Re: [Phys-l] Should teachers blog???

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2011, Feb 17, , at 14:09, John Clement wrote:

>  If teacher's E-mails are public, then legislators E-mails should also
> be public.  I would favor a constitutional amendment that would make
> legislators subject to all laws affecting their constituents, and only
> allowing them to have benefits that are given to all of their employees.
> Actually this should be enacted for corporations also.  So Enron executives
> would not be able to dump their Enron stock when the employees are similarly
> restricted from doing this.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX


You're not serious are you?

We must face it teachers are the displaced anger victims direct towards parents and, I suppose everyone else that can't be attacked.  Teachers are blamed for every ill.  (I'm just repeating what many on this list and many  elsewhere think, I presume.)  

 You-all don't know about "Rate my Professor"?

One physics prof. sued that site or one similar.  The ACLU defended and won.  I read his reviews (by the students) and couldn't believe they were writing about my friend.  OTOH, I enjoyed much schadenfreude by the reviews of my ex wife.  [Believable, of course.]


bc another angry lefty.

p.s. I'm surprised we've so kept on "subject" that there have been no comments on the Arabic student, inter alii, protests.



> There is an interesting discussion at:
> http://www.edweek.org/forums/education-forums_current-events_guidelines-teac
> hers-blog_.0
>
> The initial post is:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Pennsylvania teacher Natalie Munroe made headlines this week when she was
> suspended for bashing students on her personal blog. Munroe wrote, among
> other things, that one student seemed "smarter than she actually is" and
> described another as a "whiny, simpering grade-grubber."
>
> Well, Munroe is blogging again and defending her right to do so. The Central
> Bucks East High School teacher never identified the school, administrators,
> or students in her posts, and argues that she should be allowed to blog just
> like every other person, reports the Bucks County Courier Times. According
> to the district superintendent, Munroe is facing the possibility of
> termination. Munroe's lawyer told the paper the school had no Internet
> policy, and that Munroe may have a First Amendment case. 
>
> Do you think teachers should be allowed to blog about school? What kinds of
> ground rules would you suggest for teachers who do blog? Should teachers be
> measured against stricter standards than people in other professions? 

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