Should teachers be allowed to vent online?...Totally reasonable :-)
California math teacher Darren Miller who blogs at Right on the Left Coast: Views from a Conservative Teacher told the Lookout there's a pretty easy way to have an online presence and be a teacher: Don't write stuff that will get you in trouble.
"I've mentioned to students that I have a blog; they can look at it if they want to," he writes in an e-mail. "Each year one or two students comment on it periodically, and that's ok. While I don't put my last name on my blog, or identify my school by name, I also don't write about serious school disciplinary events or anything else that could reasonably be considered indiscreet."
Education, politics, and anything else that catches my attention.
Friday, July 29, 2011
I Forgot I Was Asked About This
I found out about this article by seeing its URL show up in Statcounter:
Except it's not true. You can get in trouble just for having a blog that discusses your teaching, if your principal chooses to make an issue of it. Happens all the time. SImilarly, some teachers (like that Flowers and Sausages woman) can write pretty terrible things about bosses and coworkers and students with impunity--and get a book deal.
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