Posted on 01/17/2017 11:24:16 AM PST by grundle
Nash ran the school district's Twitter account. On Jan. 5, a student tweeted to the account, asking that schools be closed "tammarow."
Nash responded from the district's account, "But then how would you learn how to spell 'tomorrow?'"
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Let's call you Public Enemy #1
BOLO :)
Your point is taken, that American youth are not being properly educated. This teacher’s method was to demean the student infront of the entire community & peers. That is not a good thing.
Yeah! I have been called out by the grammar police here on FR. Ouch-a-munga! LOL! Still think the school’s staff person did not respond well - most tweets & texts don’t practice correct spelling, proper grammar, or complete sentences. The medium has it’s own language.
Perhaps it was a black student whose name was actually “Tammarow” and she wanted school closed indefinitely? She was simply signing her tweet!
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Gee, we used to be shamed in class in front of our peers. It didn’t hurt us at all. Instead what it made you do was work harder to not be singled out for ridicule. So I disagree with your assertion that it was not good at all. Coddling the children is what has gotten us to the place we currently are with our educational system.
This is not fair. A student who wrote “tammarow” is probably from the culture of made up names. If you told me his/her name - I couldn’t spell it.
So why should he/she be expected to spell a simple 3rd grade word?
Oh he should have been called on it. Just not in the forum. Spelling can be very difficult for some people and it really is not a from of lack of intelligence. Even rote learning does not help. For some learning to rely on the dictionary is the best answer. Helping a student learn to use the resources available so he can provide the right word spelled correctly should be a given. Cause as you point out it does matter.
Not from a teacher. Not ever from a teacher. From a parent is a totally different matter.
Thanks. I still don’t think firing her was necessary.
The youth of today do not have the strength of character to withstand this what we did. That is not what the Dept of Education has been grooming them for.
Unless youth have strong & good parents, good friends and a faith community they have no solid foundation upon which to build their character.
All we get is school shooters.
Not entirely true. I have known people who have come from horrible situations who built character. Usually by a strict teacher who taught them, and equally rewarded their successes. We cannot just state generalities as each case is different.I’m talking about myself, as well as, you. Just as you think the teacher should have handled it differently, I think the school could have handled it differently also. There should be no winners in this situation, but the student has become the winner now, and has no motivation to better themselves. So in reality we have two losers, and the student will most likely be a loser for life.
The student was called out for his ignorance.
The social media staffer was let go for a lack of judgement.
And all this played out in a medium that doesn’t give a rats a&& about English grammar & spelling. Oh, and if you put “sp?” next to the word you misspelled are excused. Ah, me.....
I also find it interesting that because it was done on a medium that doesn't give a rats a&&, you still think a teacher should not respond with the correct spelling.
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on this issue.
Uh....I thought that was the job of school employees...to teach kids the right way to do things.....
I have come to find out, she was not a teacher. Some tech hireling that also does the social media. With all the bullying going on in social media, I can see why she was let go as well.
We can agree to disagree.
I could understand discipline, except that nobody seems to have been upset by the response. She apparently had some reasonable rapport with the students, many of them are supporting her now.
The target of her response wasn’t upset, as the article states: “The student later wrote that he didn’t mind Nash’s original reply and didn’t take it personally.”
Fire the idiot! Maybe this will serve as a lesson to all other fools who feel the need to tweet or text on social media, on behalf of a business or public entity. Stupid!
#29 You spelled Free Republic incorrectly with just two letters: FR
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I got some education from my best friend's mom a few times, and the lessons stuck .... she was, for that time and place, a teacher.
I'm now 69 remembering those lessons.
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