Right To Call Kids Lazy And Rude By Natalie Munroe Summary

Is It Always Better To Speak Your Mind? Samuel Johnson said, “Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test (Johnson).” In the essay “Teacher Natalie Munroe Has a Right to Call Kids Lazy and Rude”, the freedom of speech and opinion of teachers are tested. This essay is about a Pennsylvania high school teacher, Natalie Munroe, who posted offensive, but anonymous, things about her students on her blog. The things she wrote about her students online were perceived to be inappropriate by the students’ parents and surrounding faculty. Munroe was suspended without pay for her anonymous actions. What this essay is attempting to defend is the teachers’ right to freely and anonymously vent

It is the part of the essay that makes the reader feel either a positive or negative emotion towards what has been written. In this essay, it has a lot to do with what Natalie Munroe wrote about her students online. For example, she said “although academically okay your child has no other redeeming qualities” (Brown 580). This evokes a negative response. No one wants to hear of a teacher being unprofessional in that way. Another example occurs when Brown starts to discuss a friend of hers. This friend happens to be an Atheist and a public school math teacher. Her friend has a blog dedicated to his Atheism but Brown says that that doesn’t stop him from being “a stellar math teacher” (Brown 580). However, parents in the community are not happy about this and are “up in arms” about it (Brown 580). Brown says it’s because “they’d rather he just shut up and teach” (Brown 580). Even though this comment could be construed as aggressive, it also helps to stir up emotion within the reader. Although Brown writes in a very blunt and often offensive way, this technique helps build up the emotional appeal within the