School Employee fired for correcting student's spelling

[Vacanegro]

Hard to see how we can expect results from our educational system when you treat your employees like this.

School worker fired for correcting student’s spelling on Twitter | New York Post

[Lowexpectations]

Sorry any outrage and sadness stops for her here.

She said school officials told her they didn’t approve of her tone with the kids and directed her to stop tweeting.

Nash — who was hired in November — admits she didn’t listen and continued to access the FCPS Twitter feed, sending out calendar updates.

The headline is misleading. When your boss tells you to stop doing something you should listen instead of ignoring it and keep doing what you were doing and expecting this

“As a new employee, I think I sort of would have expected that there would have been some counseling or some suggestions on how to improve,” she said.

[Suburban_Guy]

Looks like it was the right thing to do to axe her.

[longneckone]

In our school district she would have been warned once then could be fired if she did it again.

[Mr_Geek]

She didn't get fired for correcting spelling. She got fired for not listening and following directions. How can she teach if she can't even do this?

[billl]

1: she was not a teacher (so this really does not reflect on the school district's ability to teach fundamentals)

2: she was fired for doing something she was specifically told not to do (the headline is entirely incorrect)

3: she was a "social-media manager" that was unable to properly manage her school district's social media image.

She deserved to be fired.

“I think a conversation about how we engage with students would have been completely appropriate and I would have welcomed that.”

She should have already known how to do that. It's why she was hired in the first place.

[hertfordshire]

“As a new employee, I think I sort of would have expected that there would have been some counseling or some suggestions on how to improve,” she said.

So someone is supposed to take time away from their work to teach you how to tweet without belittling students? Really?

[phetaroi]

All information about a student is legally confidential. To be honest, even having other students correct the papers of other students is technically illegal. To evaluate a student publicly online is absolutely inappropriate.

In a similar situation, explaining to a student personally and privately (later), would be fine.

[BirdieBelle]

It's not about the spelling. This has nothing to do with "expecting our educational system to do better." Her role is not to engage with students but to disseminate info about the school system as a whole.

That inability to keep the professional separate from the personal is a HUGE problem for companies and, as has been demonstrated all last year, journalists who cross that barrier to engage in personal arguments with people online.

She screwed up, and anyone who is in charge of social media has to be someone you can trust completely to know how to stay within the lines. This is a no-brainer to me.

[WithDisp]

Schools should not have a Twitter account.
Schools should not have a Facebook.
Schools should not have an Instagram.

A school is not a social entity.

It is an amalgam of hundreds or thousands of people, each with their own voices and set amount of legal protections and oversights.

These stupid affairs will continue to happen until those realize that public schools gain nothing from thousands of followers or likes.