I guess there was nothing wrong with the extreme left-wing intolerance of her own views and the tone she used to deliver them.
Collins said, “I realized I was dealing with some hard-core provincialism - not to mention intolerance of anything but ultraconservative views.”
Ding! Ding! Ding! You’ve just won the Commie of the Year award!
It’s the smarmy elitism that irks me most in our nation of late — particularly in school faculties. The actions of the school are promising.
At the risk of being the lone voice in the crowd, where did the teacher’s freedom of speech go?
She gave an assignment and felt that the girl did not fulfill it. The article says nothing about how the teacher responded in class, so we must assume that she responded appropriately, by not saying anything derogatory. Then, in a semi-anonymous blog (the article says that her name is posted and her occupation, but not school), she posts her “reply,” though of course it is not an actual reply, as the student does not see it as far as we know.
This is not a political attack - it’s the act of a teacher venting her frustrations. Do I agree with her politics? Nope, but I do agree with her method of doing so. If she had named the student, or even the school, or posted the speech on her blog, that’s a different story, as it points out the student, but she didn’t. Also, did she give out the link to her blog to her students, or did the parents just happen to find it?
Then, when the parents complained about the post, she did not defy them, but took it down immediately.
The email also complained about two previous comments by the teacher, but for the one about keeping her maiden name, that was prompted by questions from the students, according to the article.
I ask again, when did the teacher’s freedom to free speech disappear? Freedom is a two-way street - she has the right to express her opinions, and since she did not name the student (or even the school!) I do think this is an overreaction.
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.
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.