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Ex-teacher learns the hard way (Attacks conservative student on blog, gets fired)
Philly.com ^ | Wed, Jun. 9, 2010 | Dan Hardy

Posted on 06/09/2010 8:18:01 AM PDT by denydenydeny

Elizabeth Collins has blogged for more than two years about her personal life and experiences as a teacher. One Saturday in February, she posted her thoughts about a student's presentation in her English class at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, an all-girls private school in Villanova. She criticized its tone and political outlook.

The student's parents took quick exception to that post, telling the school that even though the blog did not identify their daughter by name, it was aimed at her and was an "attack on a child."

The exchange triggered a chain of events that ended with the academy's dismissing Collins in late April.

Collins said she merely used the incident to make a point about teaching methods, but ended up being singled out for her political views.

"I did nothing wrong at any time," she wrote...

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The next day, Collins received an e-mail from the student's parents, James J. White IV and Megan White. Saying there "may be some mix-up with the tone of your blog and the actual class that you are teaching," they requested a conference and asked, "If this had been an overly liberal paper, would our daughter have been the subject of your blog?"

Their e-mail also questioned two previous, unrelated incidents in Collins' class. "Earlier in the year, we did let the comment go about marriage and the taking of your husband's last name," though it was an "unnecessary comment to make to the girls and had little or nothing to do with English," it said. "Later, we were all exposed to your very strong feelings about the health-care proposal. . . . Another platform that neither of us felt was necessary for the classroom."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: academicbias; naughtyteacherslist; politicalcorrectness; privateschool
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Of course the Inquirer leaps to her defense. The only "bullying" here was the political bullying of a student by a teacher.
1 posted on 06/09/2010 8:18:02 AM PDT by denydenydeny
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To: denydenydeny

See school bus incident where bull dyke driver has an 8 YO child in tears for opposing deviant behavior. go figure.


2 posted on 06/09/2010 8:20:59 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: denydenydeny

Well I guess you find overly sensitive parents no mater what side of the political spectrum they are on.


3 posted on 06/09/2010 8:22:13 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: denydenydeny

Wouln’t happen in a public school...................


4 posted on 06/09/2010 8:22:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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To: denydenydeny

I am glad the parents defended their daughter. So many teachers today try to assert their liberalism on their students. Case in point: my son had an Honors English teacher who announced to the class she was a socialist. During a discussion of WWII, she said that Hitler “didn’t have anything against the Jews... It was a political move”. My son being outraged stood up and said “you can’t murder millions of people and say that it is a political move not motivated by hate”. She threatened to send him to the office and he said “I stand by my convictions”. I have never been prouder. If you don’t have children especially in today’s public schools, you would be very surprised to know how many times conservative values and beliefs are ridiculed by the teacher. Not all but enough of them to be a huge issue.


5 posted on 06/09/2010 8:24:43 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: denydenydeny

She is a lot more intent on political indoctrination than on education.


6 posted on 06/09/2010 8:25:59 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: denydenydeny

On the one hand, it sounded like the student ignored the purpose of the assignment. On the other, it sounds like the teacher was more interested in indoctrinating her students into her own liberalism than she was in teaching English.


7 posted on 06/09/2010 8:26:33 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: momtothree

Homeschool bump.


8 posted on 06/09/2010 8:26:35 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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To: denydenydeny
A fine illustration of the benefits of private, parochial schools. Teacher is a hard-line, Left-wing ideologue/advocate who cannot tolerate anyone who disagrees with her. Takes offense at a high school essay. Makes a child's school work a matter of public discussion on a blog. Loses job.

If this had been a public school, she'd still be there indoctrinating the kids, and the teachers' union would be all over the parents and the school district. Also: If the essay had been entitled "Bush Lies," the child would have received an A, an award for excellence, and a scholarship.

9 posted on 06/09/2010 8:28:15 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: denydenydeny

if she were a public school teacher the worst she’d get would be fully paid administrative leave while the school board went through the motions of some vain attempt to try and fire her.


10 posted on 06/09/2010 8:28:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: denydenydeny

I think people who blog about their personal life are idiots. A lot of the Facebook stuff is also idiocy. I can see an expert in an industry or something but a school teacher who probably has three friends.


11 posted on 06/09/2010 8:29:57 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: denydenydeny
From the article: In private schools in particular, free expression can also clash with a school's desire to protect its image and to respond to the concerns of the parents who pay the tuition.

How dare these people demand to have some control over what their children are taught. Just who do they think they are to try and oppose the doctrine of lefthink!

/sarcasm

12 posted on 06/09/2010 8:30:01 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Even Hitler had Government run health care, but at least he got the Olympics for Germany)
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"I just feel like health-care reform is such an innocuous issue..."

What country has this dingbat been living in for the last year?

13 posted on 06/09/2010 8:30:12 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: denydenydeny

Teacher complains about being fired for her political views yet she sees no problem in criticizing her student’s political views in her blog.


14 posted on 06/09/2010 8:30:38 AM PDT by tropical (One Year Anniversay Smoke Free 03-17-10)
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To: Frantzie
A lot of the Facebook stuff is also idiocy

Amen to that.

15 posted on 06/09/2010 8:31:09 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Even Hitler had Government run health care, but at least he got the Olympics for Germany)
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To: denydenydeny
In an interview, Collins said she was not sure she wants to return to the profession.

Hope this lib does not return to any indoctrination program of young people! She is dangerous and has MAN hands!

16 posted on 06/09/2010 8:33:05 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Michael.SF.

Facebook = boring


17 posted on 06/09/2010 8:37:59 AM PDT by animal172 (I would have been here sooner, but I just got here.)
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To: denydenydeny

Freep the poll at article’s end.


18 posted on 06/09/2010 8:38:36 AM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

exactly


19 posted on 06/09/2010 8:39:09 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: tropical; denydenydeny
I found a cached blog post on Google. Apparently her blog has been taken down now. This is the blog post in question from the article:

The Meatball Says Yes...Accurately, and Fully, Depicting Characters

(Google "Petunia Fluffyglow" if the link doesn't work for some reason)

20 posted on 06/09/2010 8:40:49 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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