Natalie Munroe, a high school teacher was suspending from her job for ‘venting online’. She wrote a blog, which she claims she kept for fun for her husband and friends to read, in which she described her students and lazy, whiners and even that she hated one of the students. She signed the blog with only her first name and the first initial of her last name and posted a picture of herself. Her attorney claims, that nothing she did was illegal and she should not have been suspended for what she’s done, as she didn’t use the names of the school or her students in her blog to give out anyone’s identity. Many of the teachers found this blog distasteful, and although they sympathize with her, as it is unbelievably hard to be a teacher in high school and it takes a lot of patience to survive there, venting online is not the best idea as it is very unprofessional.
I think Ms. Munroe didn’t realize that whatever you put online is never private. This type of information was bound to be read by somebody outside of her ‘circle of trust’. Internet is not a very safe place to post things of that sort as information spreads quicker than we think and many people got burnt that way. Nowadays even potential employers use internet to filer out their potential candidates based on what they post online, if they have any distasteful pictures, comments, etc. We have to be really careful about how we present ourselves online as anyone could be watching. Every small step we make can be viewed by others; strangers as well as people close to us. Although, what Ms. Munroe posted was not overly harmful to anyone, it was very unprofessional and she should have kept her thoughts to herself. All of us have tough days and want to vent, but once you have a professional carrier, you should watch what you say.
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