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."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
For everybody commenting here, remember that this article is massively one-sided and initiated by the teacher herself who spoke to the reporter for hours (per her blog).
Since this is a personnel matter, the school is strangled into not being able to defend itself with her employment history, possible previous complaints for similar behavior with other students/parents, and the lengthy list of steps they might have engaged in to correct her abusive behavior.
Ex-employees can engage in astronomical lies and the long suffering past employer can only limit itself to brief neutral statements and then a stream of “no comments”. By law, they cannot violate the privacy of the ex-employees personnel and disciplinary records even when attacked by that employee publicly with absolute falsehoods.
Typical liberal hypocrisy.
sorry... the link to her post -
http://prettyfreaky.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-makes-story-newsworthy.html#comment-form
We can only hope. What a navel-gazing elitist.
A couple of years ago I was threatened with legal action by a school admin via email to Jim Thompson when I posted a paper my son’s English teacher wrote and distributed as an example of how to write an essay. The title was “Why a woman would make a good President”. It was filled with lust for Hillary and chock full of grammar and factual errors.
Freepers found the teacher’s email and proceeded a bombardment. Thin skinned as she was it reduced her to tears and thus the Admin’s threats.
Glad to see a school do the right thing for a change.
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