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Teacher Fired...


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2019 Jul 7, 8:03pm   768 views  7 comments

by MisdemeanorRebel   ➕follow (12)   💰tip   ignore  

... for giving 0s to kids who didn't do any work.


An eighth-grade teacher in Florida has gone on the offensive against her former school after she claimed to have been fired for doling out “zero” grades to students who failed to hand in their homework.

Social studies teacher Diane Tirado, 52, was fired from West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie in south Florida after she had been working there for just two months.

Apparently, the school employs a “no zero” policy that Tirado is said to have violated after a group of students failed to hand in one of their first major assignments of the school year. This resulted in Tirado’s forced departure.

The assignment that ended Tirado’s career called for the students to keep an “explorer’s notebook” for two weeks in the same way a 15th-century explorer might have kept a journal in their time.

Diane Tirado claims that parents complained to her over the workloads that their kids received and criticized the teacher of 17 years for giving the eighth graders too much to handle.

“I got called down to the principal’s office because parents were not happy with me,” Tirado said in an interview. “It was ruining my life for weeks.”

She said that during this meeting the principal informed her of the alleged “no zero” policy: “I was not allowed to give anything lower than a 50.”


https://allthatsinteresting.com/no-zero-policy-teacher-fired?utm_campaign=fbpdtyc&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

How can you give 50% on Nothing?

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Jul 7, 8:19pm  

Teachers and Admins defend.
https://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/port-st-lucie/psl-teachers-speak-in-support-of-no-zero-grading

Oh, look, St. Lucie Schools are all "B" now... I wonder how that came to pass. Well, if the lowest possible grade for not doing work is 50%...
https://www.stlucie.k12.fl.us/departments/superintendent/
2   Shaman   2019 Jul 7, 10:17pm  

It’s about equality of outcome, which can’t be achieved if the teachers insist on quality of education
3   Ceffer   2019 Jul 7, 11:40pm  

It isn't about education. It's about keeping the parents AND kids from rioting and fucking up the tax suckling civil servants and the schools.

"By Jove, we're going down! Protect the infrastructure and the paychecks first at all costs!"
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Jul 7, 11:51pm  

Quigley says
It’s about equality of outcome, which can’t be achieved if the teachers insist on quality of education


Bingo.

Ceffer says
It isn't about education. It's about keeping the parents AND kids from rioting and fucking up the tax suckling civil servants and the schools.


Yep.

Note in the WPTV article all the teachers are explaining it's good for the kids, but if you read between the lines of the superintendent's page, it's clear this is primarily an "Accounting Trick" to make the District look better than it is.

The same reason Thug-in-training Martin Trayvon was never arrested for the almost $1000 in women's gold jewelry in his locker. That was filed as "School Lost and Found", meaning it took the victims more than a year to locate their items, which weren't in the regular police evidence lockers.
5   porkchopXpress   2019 Jul 8, 9:03am  

I can truly understand if the teacher is giving too much homework to kids. I've seen that myself with my middle-schoolers. But, it's hard to tell if the kids were being pussies or if it was truly unreasonable. Besides, a "no zero policy" is freaking ridiculous.
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7   Shaman   2019 Jul 8, 9:11am  

theoakman says
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