BlogDISS!

NEWSFLASH: If you do stuff around other people, especially dangerous stuff that could hurt other people it's not "private."

For example, if you're a teacher and you go to work drunk and trip over an Honor Society student, people can and will talk about you, whether you like it or not. KOLO-TV story on Nevada blogger who wrote about a local teacher.

Would it be any different were the blogger to sit at a table and verbally tell anyone who'd listen about it in the local mom 'n' pop 'Yummee's Ice Cream Shop?' It seems to me that, with his personal (keyword = personal) blog, he's just able to reach more people without having to literally talk so much and getting on people's nerves.

Can you imagine trying to have a peaceful moment at Yummee's and, thanks to blabbermouth blogger guy, you have to endure listening to 237 customers all talking about the local high school teacher coming to work drunk and setting the Chem. lab on fire over 15 minutes during which you were only trying to enjoy your rootbeer float?

Maybe this all has to do with the fact that the blogger guy is a local school board trustee? Nah ... the superintendent thinks he's violating teacher rights and privacy ... hmmmm ... I'm sure Susie's parents would agree with that, especially as they're sitting by their daughter's hospital bed because she had her legs broken as the drunk drama teacher guy backed over her with his Volvo in the school parking lot while he was trying to park and take a nap until 3rd period.

Nope, let's protect that drunk teacher guy. Let's protect the drunk teacher guy's rights and make sure he feels all warm, snuggly and comfortable (because he's obviously got a problema and we should help him to feel better). But dammit, let's publicly crucify the guy who writes about him on his blog and violates his rights!! String that bastard up for his brazen warning to other parents of high school students that one of the local teachers has a penchant for coming to work and using his Biology students for personal breathalyzers ... I guess maybe I have one final thought: Is the teacher who is entrusted with the moral and scholastic education of my child violating my child's rights to that same education by coming to work drunk and doing less than their sober best? Or is education a privilege in America rather than a right? (Hey! Psssst ... Hey! Quick: before the English teacher looks at it, did I spell "snuggly" right?!)