A teacher left a very candid farewell message to her students after claiming she got fired for fighting a strict grading rule the school had – but the school disagreed with her reason
Most students always have that one teacher who is a lot stricter than the rest. Maybe they have a the tough love approach, or down-right scary, but most educators still practice patience, professionalism and empathy. One teacher claims to have been fired for her stricter approach – and it left her confused.
Baffled by the school’s apparent rule that she couldn’t mark students work lower than 50%, she raised concerns about the policy. Being a teacher for 17 years, it was a rule she had never come across before, and when she argued the toss – it reportedly resulted in her contract being terminated.
Mrs Tirado, was working in a high school in Port St Lucie, Florida, before she was sacked on September 14, 2018 after an argument with her faculty senior. It started when she questioned how she could mark a piece of work she was never given in the first place. According to the school’s Student and Parent’s Handbook, no teacher is allowed to give a student a grade below 50 per cent – even if the work is incomplete or substandard.
She gave her Year Eight social studies class two weeks to complete a project, but at the end of the allocated time period a number of students didn’t hand any work in. As she received a termination notice with no official reason as to why, because she was still in her probation period, she left a sassy farewell message to her fellow students.