Bye Bye Birdie - WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT

Seems this high school English teacher, a Ms. Munroe from Feasterville, PA (I DIDN'T make that up) has stepped in a deep puddle.  You can read the entire article here

Let me be the first to point out that writing an opinion/vanity blog like this one is - one that gets a fair amount of hits each day but not a lot of comments, those comments that do flow through are sometimes fairly rough stuff - not so much what is posted but what arrives in the email from the digital postman. Point is, that if you write it online it is far different than writing in your "dear diary" that sits in the back of the drawer in the desk.  Electronic may seem transient to you but let me be the first to note that it endures.  But back to our teacher. 
"And in another post, Munroe — who is more than eight months pregnant — writes: "Kids! They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs. Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy LOAFERS." (WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT is the next line) She also comes up with a colorful list of comments that she felt should be available on student report cards."

I am, after reading the article about Ms. Munroe calling out the kids for being lazy and at best "incurious" , calling out the writer who  missed the noisy lazy part because t he/she was lazy.  Those words are quaint - not common usage and if you had some curiosity or have participated in high school musicals you would have recognized it immediately.  Seems Ms. Munroe grabbed a phrase from Bye Bye Birdie. Fine and dandy but speaking of crazy, sloppy, lazy .... can't an English teacher do better? While we are on the subject....




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