Amongst all the hysteria and the freedom of speech proponents leaping to Natalie Munroe’s defense, I wrote a post claiming that she was no hero and that her actions showed a terrible lack of judgement.
For those that don’t remember, Ms. Munroe is the teacher that called her students “frightfully dim, lazy whiners” on her blog.
Now it turns out that (surprise, surprise) she may not have been a very good teacher to begin with:
A high school teacher who branded her students ‘frightfully dim’ and ‘lazy whiners’ on a scathing blog has finally been fired for her ‘unsatisfactory performance’.
Natalie Munroe’s blog garnered nationwide attention when it was discovered by her students in February 2011, and she was suspended.
The English teacher was allowed to return to Central Bucks High School East in Philadelphia, but her classes were monitored by other staff.
Now the school board has dismissed Munroe, who taught 11th grade, by a 7-0 vote based on a year of class observations.
‘Ms. Munroe was, at best, a satisfactory teacher and was experiencing performance difficulties well before her blog became an issue,’ the board’s president, Paul Faulkner, said, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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