thoughts on the news of the day:bloggers

hmmm…..

            Natalie Munroe, a 30-year-old high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia has been called out because of a blog she wrote describing her students as “disengaged, lazy whiners.”  She also used inappropriate language and profanity in describing the students.  She never named the students and the blog was intended for family and friends only. While the blog has been removed from availability, it can easily be found online.  Now Munroe is fighting to keep her job, from which she maybe fired because of her outspokenness.

            What about blogs?  Can we say anything we want on them?  Apparently, most people think we can and apparently most people do.  But I disagree.  I think care should be taken in anything written that sails across the cyber sky.

            In my own case, I have to be very careful about what I say and allow on my blog.  For example, I recently had some comments from another blogger about a certain blog I had written.  While they weren’t particularly flattering, they were intelligently written.  But I didn’t approve them for the blog.  You see, the avatar that the blogger used was one in which the character shown had an outfit on with extremely low cleavage.  Call me a prude, but I am a minister, and can’t take the chance of someone misinterpreting that picture.  It’s the world I live in.  

            And fortunately or unfortunately, it’s the world Natalie Munroe lives in, too. 

            hmmm…..