Florida Teacher Got Fired For Giving Zeroes To Students, And It Escalated Quickly
A Florida teacher recently said that she was fired for refusing to give her students credit for homework they never turned in, and it managed to reignite the heated debate about the education system in the U.S.
Diane Tirado, 52, is a social studies teacher, and she says that the situation disregarded the “No Zero” policy. West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie, her former employer, had a different story.
Tirado says that she was not allowed to give anything lower than a 50. She asked her students to keep a journal in the same way a 15th-century explorer would for the first assignment of the semester, and they were required to take down notes about historical events and draw maps for two weeks. The teacher referred to it as an “explorer’s notebook”.
“I got called down to the principal’...