Nia88
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I bet a private school scoops her up after hearing about this. Good on her! Both she, and her students deserve better than this school offers.Florida teacher says she was fired for refusing to give students partial credit on an assignment they didn't turn in
A teacher in Port St. Lucie, Fla., says that she was fired for refusing to give students partial credit for work they did not turn in to her.
According to WCMH, after many students didn’t hand in an Explorer Notebook project, Diana Tirado, an eighth-grade history teacher at West Gate, gave them a zero for a grade. According to Tirado, she was let go because of the school’s no-zero policy, allegedly included in the student and parent handbook.
“But what if they don’t turn it in, and they say we’ll give them a 50. Oh no we don’t,” Tirado told WCMH.
Tirado, who was still in her probationary period, was terminated from her position on Sept. 14. However, no clause was mentioned in the letter from the principal.
According to WFTV, a chief information officer for West Gate said in a statement: “There is no district or individual school policy prohibiting teachers from recording a grade of zero for work not turned in. The district’s uniform grading system utilizes letter grades A-F, numerical grades 100 to zero and grade point averages from four to zero.”
Tirado, who says, “Teaching is a calling for me,” claims she was told never to give a student a zero.
“I’m so upset, because we have a nation of kids that are expecting to get paid and live their life just for showing up, and it’s not real,” the teacher said.
On Tirado’s last day, she wrote a message on her whiteboard to the students and posted it on Facebook...
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
What a hot flaming mess of a district. They can't even have a uniform policy on GRADING and have in writing two different policies--one says you CAN give a zero and the other in the school handbook says no grades less than 50% (which is ridiculous).
That's just a mess. I feel bad for the teacher, but maybe she can get a job in a better district.
A lot of private school are worse.
Honestly she's better off changing professions.
A lot of teachers (like myself) are just leaving the profession all together. It's not worth the stress anymore.