All right then

So after that last outburst on here, imagine my shock when I heard about this case.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2011/0217/Natalie-Munroe-calls-out-whiny-kids-Do-teacher-blogs-help-or-hurt-schools

Great...

My personal belief is this is a free speech issue. If a particular student is allowed to comment on a public Facebook page that their teacher is a "fat ass" and allowed to call in the ACLU because they were suspended for it (true case, look it up) or just look at the Fayette Co. Facebook page and all the crap posted on there, then I believe Ms. Munroe here deserves the same treatment. Yes, "teachers are held to a higher standard" I hear it everywhere, I've even said it myself, but dear goodness she has a point. Yes she was harsh, yes the language she used is "unprofessional," but I believe in those negative comments she was 1. venting about a particularly bad day and 2. telling it like it is. Anyone who believes that all students, especially high schoolers, are sweet, innocent, loving, hard-working mature young adults is naive. There are some, but they are the smallest of small minorities. High school wasn't that long ago for me and I would love to catergorize myself in there, but I was (and still am to some extent) rude, disrespectful, and annoying to my teachers especially if I didn't care or didn't like them. It's just how it goes.
I'm bothered by the super strong negative reactions to this story. Not because I don't agree with those comments, but because the people writing those comments seem so unaware of how difficult it is to be a teacher of any age group. I've known people who pick Education because it's an "easy major" and then the actually get into the schools and are apalled by what they see and hear. I don't enjoy the romanticized view of teachers or of student/teens and I fully support Ms. Munroe in her decisions to both post her honest comments and to be unapologetic about the situation as a whole.