Katie Nash told the The Frederick News-Post, that she was terminated from her $44,000-a-year job as web experience coordinator after replying, “But then how would you learn how to spell ‘tomorrow?’ :)”.
The clever reply got quite a bit of attention on Twitter before it was deleted. It even inspired the hashtags “#KatiefromFCPS” and — after Twitter feared she was no longer running the account — “#FreeKatie.”
But while even the recipient of Nash’s reply thought the tweet was in good fun, the district apparently wasn’t comfortable with her approach and dismissed her Friday.
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I'm thinking she has grounds for a lawsuit and I hope she fires an attorney!
If she has had no other problems in her work history, then this is ridiculous! I guess you shouldn't have a sense of humor.
And they wonder why they can't keep good teachers!
So where is the teachers union in this? This teacher is trying to make a point of why education matters.
And they can't understand why there is a shortage of teachers. They get no support from the administration as most are promoted for political reasons.
This has to be because the teacher is white and the student was Black.
Maryland is an AT WILL STATE! Cover your but to keep your job! No one is safe in this state!
The bigger issue here is why would a school system need to hire someone for $44,000 a year to send twitter messages? We don't pay that much to our instructional assistants!
You should ask Jake Day why the City of Salisbury has employed people to counter anything negative against Salisbury. I was told there are six people doing this daily, including HUNDREDS of comments we are forced to reject every day.
The person that wrote this was not a teacher and is not part of the Union. They were employed as a tech and subject to be fired. Probably was already on someone's bad side. Made a mistake and paid for it.
now that it is legal for the US gubmint to propagandize, it follows that the truth must be the victim
Joe- you are so right. He's not the mayor I hoped for as a city employee. I wish I could say more on here, but my complaints are specific enough for the group I'm in that I'd probably be found out and punished. I'd probably have a good lawsuit though for the paper we were forced to sign a couple of years ago banning us from negative comments on social media, but that would be a lot of trouble. Don't believe the articles that all is fine and dandy in salisbury.
Bob Culver (or should I say, his HR director) makes the County Employees submit to a social media policy, which says the same thing (@12:31). We are not allowed to disparage the County at all for risk of being fired, which is what happened in the former Risk Manager's and Director of Family Services' cases.
So much for free speech!
The position she holds sounds like a waste if taxpayer money. Good riddance!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The position she holds sounds like a waste if taxpayer money. Good riddance!
January 16, 2017 at 7:22 PM
How so?
A teaching moment lost her her job. We all need to hang our heads with this travesty.
Why ever sign up to be a teacher?
She said the exactly correct thing!
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