School system that fired woman for tweet updates guidelines
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Maryland school system has updated its social media guidelines after a school system employee was fired for a lighthearted quarrel she had with a student on Twitter over the student's spelling.
The Frederick News-Post (http://bit.ly/2jt992P ) reports that all new Frederick County school system employees will receive a mandatory training session that addresses social media.
On Jan. 5, a student tweeted to the school district's account, asking that schools be closed "tammarow."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Katie Nash, who ran the account, responded, "But then how would you learn how to spell 'tomorrow?'" She was fired a week later.
The system's guidelines now include a note that social media messages shouldn't be "mocking, disrespectful, rude, mean or dismissive." That phrase wasn't in an earlier copy of the guidelines that Nash said she was given.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Information from: The Frederick (Md.) News-Post, http://www.fredericknewspost.com