Teacher? Blog well or look for new work.

Alternative Title: "NEWSFLASH: What you post on the web is not private!"

Remember this one from last school year about Pennsylvania teacher Natalie Monroe:

Her blog posts calling students "frightfully dim," "whiny," and "utterly loathsome" prompted her suspension in February.

You might also recall that her, well, 'punishment', was that she was not fired or reassigned. She's right back in the same school where she was then.

Well, she's not out of the woods yet as more than 200 students have dropped her class this fall requesting to be reassigned. While not available for comment, Ms. Monroe did say:

she "will teach in an empty classroom if I have to."

Now, maybe I'm no expert, but WHA?

Which also makes me think: HUH?

This is like if a tree fall in the forest and no one is around, right? If she's teaching to an empty classroom, is she still teaching? My favorite corollary question is: "If you're teaching and no one is learning, are you still teaching?"

That last one could apply to too many folks.