School employee fired for correcting student's spelling

Student tweeted to the county school system that they should close schools "tammarow" because of the snow, to which the employee responded that if they cancelled class, how would the kid ever learn to spell correctly.

Frederick County Public Schools Employee Fired for Tweet

 

You're really in favor of the district's official social media account mocking students?

Seems like an odd take from you.

 

Rules is rulz.

 

Not necessarily, but I'm hugely in favor of doing anything it takes to ensure our kids don't communicate like morons. And, that they realize the full scope of what they do and say on the Internet.

Teaching that is not always going to be unicorns and rainbows.

 

Eh, I'm in favor of letting a kid be a kid where possible. I can only imagine the number of times I could/would have been publicly shamed had I grown up in the Internet era because of stupid stuff I did. The adults should be adults.

 

Yeah, student shaming from an official Twitter feed is a bit much.

 

The thing is, I could see an exchange of this type happening in a classroom (if the kid had written something on the board, for example). Teacher would have embarrassed the kid a little in front of his classmates, and that would be the end of it.

All the internet did was expand the reach of something not all that out of the ordinary. And I have to say I'm for ANYTHING that might make someone --- regardless of age --- get in the habit of looking something up before posting. That can't be a bad thing.

 

It's fundamentally different if it's a private limited audience vs. blasting it out to the world.

 

Yeah, I see that. But pretty much anyone today can spread anything that happens in a private limited audience to the world anyway. As Mitt "47 percent" Romney can attest. Or the upcoming tape of the Trump pee party.

 

The real "shame" lies in communicating that poorly in the first place, not that someone pointed it out.

Obviously we should strive for a less mocking tone, but embracing or tolerating ignorance is much more harmful overall.

 

There was definitely no ignorance nor were there class clowns in previous generations.

These fucking millennials.