Well that makes sense. When your goal is to create as dumb a society as possible to gain more control over them, you cannot tolerate a teacher that wants to teach our children. If you cannot catch the heavy dose of sarcasm then I guess I failed.
I don’t think it was strictly that she pointed out the error but where she pointed it out. In the class room would have been quite acceptable. Where it might lead to a student being publicly humiliated it was not. Firing the teacher was way over the top. A simple note in her file with an apology to the student would have been more than appropriate.
This doesn’t pass the smell test.
Good or bad?
Should she have been fired?
Why did the kid want the school closed?
Any photo’s to determine guilt or innocence?
Ok, why does a school or school district need a twitter account?
I guess I am too old to appreciate the whole twitter ‘thing’.
I was going to say that the school employee should not be twittering (to avoid twitting stupid things), but then I read they were in charge of the account. So I guess they were fired for doing their job, which makes no sense to me, the job of running a twitter account that is.
Maryland.....figures.
The whole thing makes logical sense; if this was the traditional Mafia she would have been whacked. In the present case, she was merely fired.
Of all the ‘holier than thou’ boring rude tactless grammar police I’ve observed first hand, and stories about them, this is a person that is actually paid and in a position where correction is proper.
And to think, sixty years ago students were expected to be called on and give answers in front of the ENTIRE CLASS! Talk about being shamed when you were “wrong”! Some of us even had to (gasp) STAND IN THE CORNER as punishment!
Good thing the teacher texted as I bet the student could not even read cursive.
Ask a question pubicly.
Get your answer pubicly.
(SIC - I know)
Having worked in enough jobs where management was passive-aggressive to the nth degree, I can pretty much guarantee that they had already been looking for a reason to fire her, probably for quite some time.
Insert one of the cut and paste passive-aggressive statements here, such as: ‘Unfortunately, we’ve come to the conclusion that you’re just not a good fit for our organisation’.
Translation: she has pissed off one or more of the wrong people somewhere along the way.
Very sad. This is the state of education.
Betsey, here is something for you.
IMO ... she was fired because the schools are using electronic communication(s) with students (seems to be mostly grammer and middle schools) and it is a HUGE open door for teacher/student abuse and the fact that this teacher had free access to a student ... no m,atter HOW innocent .... I’m willing to guess that she had been cautioned about actually USING this freedom UNTIL THE SCHOOL (district) HAD GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT.
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?
Uh....I thought that was the job of school employees...to teach kids the right way to do things.....
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!