# School employee fired for correcting student's spelling on Twitter.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 16, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-employee-fired-for-correcting-students-spelling-on-twitter/777310 "2017-01-16T13:14:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-employee-fired-for-correcting-students-spelling-on-twitter/777310/21 "2017-01-17T16:22:55Z")

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Employee shouldn’t have been fired, but her Twitter response was unnecessarily snarky and reflected badly on the school.

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-employee-fired-for-correcting-students-spelling-on-twitter/777310/22 "2017-01-17T16:40:03Z")

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I was a bit surprised because this is a professional job. Where I work a lot of emphasis is given to training new hires. A job search might have taken months and many applicants interviewed. A little patience goes a long way with a new hire.

We do have a six month probation period and some people just don’t work out. A bad 6 month performance review usually means a change is needed.

Hourly positions are handled much differently. It’s more like in the private sector. They clock in. Supervised closely. Just a totally different management approach from salaried staff.

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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-employee-fired-for-correcting-students-spelling-on-twitter/777310/23 "2017-01-17T19:48:19Z")

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I don’t have a cite for this but I heard this story being discussed on the radio and like most of these stories there was more to it. Apparently this employee had been warned multiple times against giving snarky answers. I’m not saying that firing her was the right call but there was more to it than the headlines would imply.

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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-employee-fired-for-correcting-students-spelling-on-twitter/777310/24 "2017-01-17T20:03:31Z")

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> **Nash said Friday she was told not to tweet anymore after the initial attention** , but she still had access to the FCPS Twitter feed. \*\*She continued to tweet \*\*calendar updates and things that had already been posted through Find Out First, a county schools news alert system.

A new employee, probably still on probation, refused a directive to stop tweeting and continued. This is why probationary periods exist, to weed out potentially unsuitable new hires before they become more permanent.

Big surprise!

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-employee-fired-for-correcting-students-spelling-on-twitter/777310/25 "2017-01-17T23:33:11Z")

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> Employee shouldn’t have been fired, but her Twitter response was unnecessarily snarky and reflected badly on the school.

You have the audacity to say “unnecessarily snarky” **here**? This is the land of “unnecessarily snarky”. Or, more accurately, the land of “there ain’t no such thing as ‘unnecessarily snarky’”.

I dunno. I’m kinda siding with the “that isn’t the whole story” party here. Although people get fired for extraordinarily shallow and stupid things, true.

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