Apparently the Frederick County Public School district feels Twitter is a safe space, or something. It fired a district social media director because she dared to correct a kid’s incorrect spelling of “tomorrow” on a tweet.
Katie Nash, a 33-year-old social-media manager for the Maryland school district, was fired after she posted a correction to a kid who misspelled the word “tomorrow,” the New York Post reported.
When the student asked if his school could close “tammarow,” Nash playfully replied, “But then how would you learn how to spell ‘tomorrow’? :)”
Nash and the student went on with each other over several tweets and the kid even noted he didn’t mind the sarcastic tweets and took nothing personally.
But that wasn’t good enough for the school district, which fired Nash from her $44,066 per year job as Web-Experience Coordinator.
Nash said she didn’t want to make a big deal about it all, but as a recently hired employee she was surprised by the abrupt treatment.
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“As a new employee, I think I sort of would have expected that there would have been some counseling or some suggestions on how to improve,” she said.
And she was taken aback by the firing for another reason. As social media director, she thought her job was to increase social media engagement.
“Any social-media manager is looking for increasing engagement, and that’s sort of the expected parameter,” she added. “I think a conversation about how we engage with students would have been completely appropriate and I would have welcomed that.”
Her original tweet to the student not only got thousands of likes, but it sponsored the hash tag #KatiefromFCPS.
There are a lot of tweets using the hashtag…
WE WANT KATIE BACK #FREEKATIE #KatieFromFCPS pic.twitter.com/Q80oShZSpN
— D ☀️ (@deethomps_) January 7, 2017
#katiefromFCPS This is clearly a person who represented the school well, she knows precisely how to speak to the youth through social media
— DorkSword (@Dorksword) January 16, 2017
no1 should be fired 4 humor. Even if boss thinks its inappropriate Not offensive/hateful? Reprimand, not fire #katiefromFCPS @FCPSMaryland
— 🎀Freya🐱Kitteh💞🧸 (@FreyaFyre) January 15, 2017
#katiefromfcps #freekatie we love you Katie. @FCPSMaryland pic.twitter.com/aqM6OF4sJf
— 〰️ (@KMB_keeper) January 13, 2017
And Katie Nash herself thanked everyone for the nice things they have said about her…
. @FCPSMaryland is more than a single person. TY to all who have expressed love this week. It isn't about #katiefromFCPS or #FreeKatie …
— Katie Nash (@katienash) January 13, 2017
Wish success for FCPS, students deserve the best. Don't regret a tweet. #katiefromFCPS says do ur homewurk – no one takes away ur education
— Katie Nash (@katienash) January 13, 2017
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