Kelly in Kansas

One Man's Opinion?-?Everyone's Got One!: "What Ivan is saying here (let me parse it for you) is that we the members of your search committee really don't care if you say idiotic things in class because the only people that might hear you say them are your students, and teachers don't exist for the benefit of their students. We your search committee are more concerned with what you might do in your 'off-time' that could potentially embarass us (as pseudonymous Ivan must have done for his school in writing his Chronicle article).

Stop and think about that. The ramifications of an idiotic post outweigh the ramifications of faulty teaching. "

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