Blogging Schoolteacher

Re “The case of the blogging schoolteacher,” by Dan Rottenberg (Editor’s Notebook)—

Blogging the truth about undercivilized teenagers shouldn’t identify perpetrators who deserve private counsel. Our “Let it all hang out of the sometimes thoughtless Facebook culture” complicates the tuition of teenagers stumbling out of broken family homes and other wrecks. Our viral pop cult is corrupting many, including, I would speculate, teachers hungering for instant Internet fame.

It ain’t the high school I first entered as a teacher in 1952! Where the students were eager to be silently counseled. We’ve created the mess called Mass Culture. Now we must try to recivilize it. A grim future. (And how reassuring to discover Ronald James to persist in being harmlessly aggressive. Bless him— and Dan, for giving him his first perch!)

Patrick D. Hazard
Weimar, Germany
August 12, 2011