Elizabeth Collins has blogged for more than two years about her personal life and experiences as a teacher.
One Saturday in February, she posted her thoughts about a student’s presentation in her English class at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, an all-girls private school in Villanova. She criticized its tone and political outlook.
The student’s parents took quick exception to that post, telling the school that even though the blog did not identify their daughter by name, it was aimed at her and was an “attack on a child.”
The exchange triggered a chain of events that ended with the academy’s dismissing Collins in late April. “You have demonstrated a willingness to engage in inflammatory actions and have made a problematic situation worse,” her termination letter said.
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