"It would be difficult to find a better example of everything that's wrong with education in America: a Maryland public school fired the woman who ran its Twitter account because she corrected a student's spelling.
The student, "Nathan," tweeted "Close school tammarow PLEASE" at Frederick County Public Schools. Katie Nash, the district's social media director, replied "but then how would you learn to spell 'tomorrow'? :)" from the FCPS account.
District officials were not pleased.
First, they instructed Nash to stop tweeting.
Then they called her into a meeting and abruptly fired her, according to The Frederick News-Post:
District officials were not pleased.
First, they instructed Nash to stop tweeting.
Then they called her into a meeting and abruptly fired her, according to The Frederick News-Post:
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.Nash said there was never a conversation about what the tone of the account was to be."Any social media manager is looking for increasing engagement, and that's sort of the expected parameter," she said. "I think a conversation about how we engage with students would have been completely appropriate and I would have welcomed that..."
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