Teacher fired for giving a zero to students who refused to turn in an assignment. Seriously

With all the huge disasters that are being inflicted on this nation every day, it would rarely seem worth the time to examine relatively small local events.  But some of those seemingly insignificant events actually reveal huge weaknesses in our system.  Left uncorrected, those eventually give us stolen elections and one-party rule.  Here's one such.

Let me start this one by saying many teachers are great, as are some school "administrators."  But it appears that many school "administrators" are...how to put it?  Incompetent and devious.  Example:

A Florida public school (motto: "Achieving excellence is our only goal") published a "Student and Parent Handbook."  

 

"Achieving excellence."   Got it?

Under the heading "grading policy" this paragon of "excellence" decreed that the lowest possible grade was 50%.  "No zero's" [sic; this bastion of "excellence" seems to be unaware that the plural of zero is "zeroes" and doesn't have one of those ' thingies.]

Diane Tirado was a new teacher.  When several students refused to turn in a homework assignment, Tirado gave 'em zeroes.

School administrators promptly fired her.  You'd think it was for giving students a zero, but administrators refused to tell her why.  In fact the school system claimed that was NOT the reason.

When the story reached the media, the school--astonishingly--denied that their policy was that teachers were not allowed to give a grade under 50 percent, despite that being printed in red in the student-parent handbook. Incredibly, the chief information officer for the school system issued this statement:

[St. Lucie schools system] values the importance of maintaining a high-quality teaching staff.... Wavering on the expectations of quality is not an option.

There is no District or individual school policy prohibiting teachers from recording a grade of zero for work not turned in. The District utilizes... numerical grades 100-0.”

That would seem to be a brazen lie, as evidenced by the school's own published handbook.

Now the real problems begin to surface:  First, why would any school system EVER have a policy that teachers couldn't give zeroes (or if you're a member of the team that published the handbook, "zero's") to students who refused to turn in anything?  Wait, that's right: Liberals believe giving kiddies a zero hurts their self-esteem.  If the kids aren't white, liberals claim giving 'em a zero is raaaacist. 

Second: Why would the school board issue a statement lying about having a no-zeroes policy?  That's a lot easier to explain:  Good parents would question the intelligence of the people running things.  Why give a 50 to a student who simply refused to turn in anything?

But in today's Dem-ruled society--where the government allows open borders; lets criminals out of jail without requiring bail; allows armies of rioters to burn cities, then dismisses charges; passes laws to encourage vote fraud; and takes children away from parents if the parents object to their kids getting sex-change hormones, bad schools are way, way, down the list of our problems.

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