An eighth-grade history teacher identified as Diana Tirado in Port St. Lucie, Florida has alleged that she has been fired by the authorities for scoring students zero in assignments they refused to submit to her.
According to WCMH, after many students didn’t hand in an Explorer Notebook project, and the teacher at West Gate, gave them a zero for a grade.
According to Tirado, she was let go because of the school’s no-zero policy allegedly included in the student and parent handbook.
“But what if they don’t turn it in, and they say we’ll give them a 50. Oh no we don’t,” Tirado told WCMH.
Tirado, who was still in her probationary period, was terminated from her position on Sept. 14. However, no clause was mentioned in the letter from the principal.
According to WFTV, a chief information officer for West Gate said in a statement:
“There is no district or individual school policy prohibiting teachers from recording a grade of zero for work not turned in. The district’s uniform grading system utilizes letter grades A-F, numerical grades 100 to zero and grade point averages from four to zero.”