How not to blog

Posted by Rory Jolley

There's blogging.  And then there's blogging about your work.  Both are fine, without more.

Then there's blogging in a way which is incompatible with your work. 

Or, as recently occurred in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, there's blogging about your work in a way that's entirely incompatible with your work.

An English Teacher in the Central Bucks School District, Natalie Munroe, was probably not wise to blog about her students on her personal blog page for over a year.  Certainly, she was not wise to refer to them, amongst other things, as 'frightfully dim', 'rat-like' and 'smarter than she actually is'.

Unsurprisingly, after parent complaints, the teacher in question was suspended, and her blog shut down.

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