On Cursing When Necessary
Today, I got an e-mail from my SOS March compatriot Nancy Flanagan about the flare-up of protest towards Justin Hamilton, press secretary for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Not sure what the press secretary thought when he got on Twitter. Maybe he assumed we teachers would just parrot the edu-jargon of the day or repeat someone else with thousands of followers and let him only argue with that leader and not the rest of us on the ground. Maybe he assumed we were all going to get a warm belly for him retweeting anything that we said in his general direction. Maybe he believed that, since teachers fear losing their jobs for having an opinion, that we’re all nervous sheep.
Or maybe he thought we wouldn’t actually talk about Arne Duncan, and by extension, Barack Obama.
Yet, here we are, asserting our voices in ways that he probably didn’t expect. That includes cursing. Apparently,