School grades should reflect the level of a child’s performance. So when some children refused to do their homework, this teacher gave them 0%. This was enough to get her fired.

When you have literally nothing to grade, what grade percentage can you give? The obvious answer would be zero, or so you thought.

Yes, one teacher gave some of her students zeroes for handing nothing in at the end of class, and this resulted in the school letting her go.

The teacher in question in this story is Diane Tirado. She has almost two decades of teaching experience.

Over the course of her career, she’s heard all kinds of excuses from kids for not completing their homework. Usually, she’s lenient with the students, but repeated refusal to hand in homework means that she has to give them zeroes.

When she took up a new job at West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie, Florida, she hoped that her years of experience would allow her to flourish. She was wrong.

After just a few months of teaching history at the school, she began the seemingly innocent course of events that led to her being fired.

It all started when she assigned some homework to her class.

She was teaching the kids about historical explorers, so she asked the kids to keep a notebook in the style of the explorers they’d been studying. She gave them two weeks to hand it in.

She’d been assigning homework like this throughout her career, and didn’t think anything of it. And then the nightmare began.

Pretty soon, parents started calling in saying that this homework was too hard.

Tirado had to go and talk with the principal over these complaints. But Tirado held firm, saying that the homework, which involved writing up a few journal entries and drawing some maps, wasn’t too difficult for a class of eighth-graders.

The homework assignment remained in place, and the kids and their parents would have to deal with it. But some of them refused.

When it was hand in day, Tirado had low expectations from some of the kids. After all, they’d complained incessantly. But she was shocked when some of them handed in absolutely nothing.

So like most teachers would do in her situation, she gave those kids 0% for zero work.

Tirado thought that that would encourage these kids to at least make a small amount of effort next time. But that’s when things went from bad to worse.

The next day, Tirado was called into the principal’s office once again.

The principal informed her that the school’s policy was to never give out 0% for any reason, even if a student refuses to hand in any work. In fact, lowest grade that she could give out was 50%, even if a student did nothing.

For this infraction, the principal said that he had no choice but to let Tirado go. She was fired immediately.

Some people may say that it was best for Tirado to be out of a school with such terrible policies. But it must have been incredibly worrying for her. She’d always worked and done a good job, and now she was being fired over this!?

Before she left, Tirado went to her classroom to gather up her things, and she left a parting message to the kids.

It was incredibly kind, considering that some of them had been directly responsible for her no longer having a job.

Tirado since posted her story onto Facebook and received an outpouring of support.

Hopefully, she does not struggle to get another job soon.

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Source: Upworthy