[etni] Teachers speak out of turn

Teachers speak out of turn
USA Today - September 17, 2006

When the fed-up young teacher decided to quit her job in rural North Carolina in June, her resignation letter was brief - three lines. But she had more to say.

So she spoke her mind online, in an anonymous, 1,000-word Internet posting to her principal that recounted in grim detail racist teachers, obligatory prayers at faculty meetings, "What would Jesus do?" lectures and a "terrible" vice principal who "tries to sleep with the coaches."

Although all names, including those of the school and city, were withheld, the letter was widely read. For three years, the thirtysomething teacher had been writing a popular Internet weblog, or blog, under the pseudonym First Year Teacher.

She's one of hundreds of teachers who blog these days, uploading details from their daily lives for a firsthand look at the maddening, exhilarating, often heartbreaking world of the modern public school.

Perhaps because they are so raw and unscripted, teacher blogs - often written anonymously for fear of reprisal - are finding an audience.

(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.etni.org/news/teacher_blogs.htm )


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