From WKYC (dated January 17, 2017):
A Maryland public school district has fired one of its employees a week after one of her tweets for the district went viral.Read the rest HERE.
On Jan. 5, in response to a tweet from a student directed at the Frederick County Public Schools Twitter account asking for schools to close "tammarow," Katie Nash, who was in charge of running the @FCPSMaryland feed, tweeted back: "But then how would you learn how to spell ‘tomorrow?’ :)" It was retweeted and liked more than 1,000 times each, and Nash even got her own hashtag, #KatiefromFCPS....
My view: Twitter is a public forum. If someone can't stand the ensuing heat there after posting a Tweet that contains an error, that someone shouldn't be Tweeting.
This is the predictable end result when we allow government schools to initiate actions outside of school property and outside the scope of the school system. This time, it was a school employee....usually it's been a student, punished by the school system for non-school related activities.
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Apparently, this employee was hired to be some kind of social media liaison.
DeleteYeah....perfect use of tax dollars.....
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CI,
DeleteThere are so many wastes of tax dollars. Can we even count them all?
An ERROR UNCORRECTED soon becomes An ERROR COMPOUNDED.
ReplyDeletePEE-REE-UDD!
FT,
DeleteAgreed!
I must say I am lazy at times with spelling, what with spell check. No such mercy with a tweet.
ReplyDeleteBunkerville,
DeleteYes, spell check should have prevented the error in the first place.
Wee have a spelling checquer,
ReplyDeleteAs yews full as kin bee.
Id plane lee marks four are revue
Miss steaks wee kin knot sea.
Weave run this Poe em threw it,
Weir shirr yaw glad two no.
Ids high lee polished in it sway
Are checquer tolled mi sew.
A checquer is a bless sing,
It freeze us too waist thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
An AIDS mi when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on are screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checquer pores o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checquer's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if weir lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now beak awes are spelling
Is checqued with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's in what wee rite,
Of witch aye yam am a wear.
Now spelling kin knot phase mi,
Aye kin knot shed a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
Harts whiff wrapped your fare to hear.
To rite reel wells a grate feet
Of witch won should bee prowed,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
This oft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Beak awes aye won too pleas.
Wean owe that weaken pup leash
With free dim and with pried.
Are checquer merd errs hang leash,
Bud never can beat ride.
~ Anonymous (emended and embellished by FT)
What are the duties of a "web experience coordinator"?
ReplyDeleteThe same as those of a Sanitary Engineer, obviously. Why would you even bother to ask?
DeleteI remember when Barbara Boxer stood before the Senate with a large poster trying to make a point; there were two misspellings.....
ReplyDeleteWatch the Dems blast Betsy DeVos today; think it's because she doesn't want our children to do better? Or is it because she's giving kids back to their parents to make decisions for themselves.
They fired this employee? How about firing teachers who keep passing kids on who can't read at 10 years old?
The secret to combatting ADD
ReplyDeleteLies in taking one thing you think great
Into splendid isolation where no sounds
Or sights assault the senses with distractions.
Concentrate on learning to ignore
Stray thoughts and wayward influences crude.
Self-discipline becomes its own reward.
Examine only one thing at a time .
Pop Culture we must come to recognize
As the enemy of Reason and good work.
Learn to cherish silence so you can
Listen to your heart and see within.
Monasticism may seem too austere,
But retreating from the world pays dividends.
It deepens your perceptions as it hones
Improvement in your character and views,
And aids in helping you learn to eschew
The tawdriness that saps your strength, and then
Impoverishes every part of you.
~ FreeThinke
___________ DIAGNOSIS ___________
ReplyDeleteStopping Racism today is now believed
No harm, but only good could ever do ––
Of Paramount Importance. –– We’ve deceived
Innumerable millions, brought them to
The point where kicking over all the traces
A counterfeit Altruism now prevails:
Zig zags must be viewed as straight, so races
Ill-informed may proudly fill their sails ––
Reject all hope of Mental Elevation ––
Enjoy, instead, White Perquisites unearned ––
Given –– by “The Rich,” whose education,
Goading them to see all Privilege spurned,
Informed them they should not be what they are.
Now, Prehistoric Depths loom not so far.
~ FreeThinke
DEATH! All is DEATH. Nothing but DEATH.
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ReplyDeleteWell, I'm sure that many do not feel that way. Some of that reaction depends on how they fared during the Obama years, some will be racist-based.
DeleteFrankly, at this point, it seems that more people want to dance on Trump's grave than on Obama's grave. We can only hope that the security precautions for January 19-21 will be enough to protect Trump, Pence, and their supporters.
And, now, back to the topic of this blog post: weird trends in American education.
I thought I had commented quite adequately on that subject, and have done so many times for many years.
DeleteCamille Paglia is now on record (at Drudge) saying our universities are in terrible shape –– absolutely wretched –– a disgrace –– or words to that effect. [She may be an oddball, and hard to pin down, but she has genuine integrity. I've always liked her.]
But we've KNOWN all this for DECADES. I know YOU have been doing what you can do combat the trend of deteriorating values in education, but the majority seen perfectly content to go along with the gag, as it were. Paths of least resistance and all that. PHEW!
I got out of teaching a great many years ago for reasons we've discussed privately. Frankly, it's become too dangerous thanks to social activists always eager to stir up trouble on the slightest pretext wherever they can. and of course –– like you –– I could never subject myself to orders from "on high" to water down the curriculum to cater to the whims of spoiled brats, and pushy parents, –– or to boost minorities' self esteem, etc.
FT,
DeleteYes, I am holding the line on standards.
Over the past 40 years, I had to exit the public schools system and one private school because I was ordered to violate the standards. So, here I am, in a low-paying niche market: classes of homeschoolers.
I'm afraid that public schools are little more than baby sitting facilities for the "lower classes" and cash cows for "educators".
DeleteIn my experience, following principle seldom pays monetarily but (hopefully) makes up the difference in self-esteem.
Fourth graders at Explorer Elementary School in Williamston, Michigan banned from watching Trump inauguration speech
DeleteWarren,
DeleteAmazing, huh?
When I was in elementary school, we went to school on Inauguration Day, and the teacher rolled in a TV (antennas back then) so that we could watch at least the swearing in and the new President's speech.
The first swearing in that I I recall watching on that grainy b&W TV was that of JFK's, but I'm sure that we watched that of Eisenhower's when I was in kindergarten -- or maybe in 1st grade.
I wonder...Did the Explorer Elementary School make sure that students watched the swearing in of BHO?
Warren,
DeleteOne of the ocmments at the FB page referenced in the link you left:
We took our Grandkids out of the stupid liberal public schools a couple years ago because of the ignorance there teaching our kids today.
Warren,
Deletefollowing principle seldom pays monetarily but (hopefully) makes up the difference in self-esteem.
And I sleep at night.
_ We All Should Wish Them Well _
ReplyDeleteFor all the quips and jibes and taunts
And brutal castigation
Our First Family's image haunts,
And begs new valuation.
Both elegant and wholesome
This group radiates great charm
We should feel proud
___ they reached a goal some
Tell us did no harm.
Their image, lean and lissome,
Does great credit to their race.
To know them might be bliss. Some
Might wish to kiss each face.
The father’s been a failure
Many say with unchecked bile.
Rated as the Holy Grail your
Welfare class adored his style.
Conservatives despised him
And insisted he must fail,
While the the Left who idolized him,
Thinks the Right belongs in jail.
And so we’re now divided
Many saying we’re at war
With those we have derided
Thus forgetting what Life’s for.
Although his leftist stance
Has been essentially perverse
We should not want to dance
Upon his grave. That make things worse
By deepening the chasm
That now between us yawns
We kill enthusiasm
Thus darkening all our dawns.
So please try to remember
Barrack with charity;
His legacy’s an ember
Now. Let’s pray Trump sets us free.
~ FreeThinke (1/18/17)
But FT, how can I miss him if he won't go away?
Delete:^)
One reason he'll never go away:
Deletehttps://news.grabien.com/story-watch-sycophantic-white-house-press-corps-shower-obama-adula
The media will be running to him for "words of wisdom."