"Hello class! I'm your teacher, Miss Munroe, and as you know, you all disgust me. Now, I expect your full trust and respect this year. I am a professional, and my superiors and I agree that the fact that I hate you with all my soul won't change how I treat you, because hate doesn't affect how people treat each other in life. Wait...why are you all looking at me like that?"
Administrators at Central Bucks East High School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, have decided to reinstate suspended teacher Natalie Munroe, who had made it very clear in several blog posts discovered by the school and her students last February that she detested her job and a great many of her students and their parents, spewing diatribes that ridiculed specific students for their appearance, habits, speech and character.
There is no conceivable justification for this. Munroe both deserved to be fired, and had to be fired, because she cannot be trusted to be fair, unbiased or diligent in educating students when she is so disgusted, annoyed and infuriated by them. “I hate your kid,” she wrote to the generic parents of her charges on her now discontinued blog.
“I hate your kid.” This is a smoking gun, but the school has chosen to ignore it.
How responsible is it for a school to entrust schoolchildren to the instruction of a teacher who admits that she hates them? It is as responsible as letting a caregiver at a nursing home continue employment after writing, “I dislike old people.” As responsible as hiring a nurse who tells the hospital that she is nauseated by sick people. As responsible as entrusting an orphaned child with an adoptive couple who announces that they can’t stand him.
Amazingly, Munroe has never denied that she meant what she wrote. Instead, her defense was this: Continue reading
Ethics Alarms 