Florida teacher claims she was fired for refusing to give half credit to students who didn’t turn in their assignments. According to West Gate K-8 School’s student handbook, the school has a “no zero” policy which prevents teachers like Diane Tirado from giving a grade below 50 percent.

据美国佛罗里达一位教师反应，她在给没交作业的学生打了零分之后被学校解雇了。在西门八年制学校的学生手册里明确规定了学校的“无零分政策”，禁止老师给学生打出总分50%以下的成绩。

“Bye Kids, Mrs. Tirado loves you and wishes you the best in life! I have been fired for refusing to give you a 50% for not handing anything in,” the former eighth-grade U.S. history teacher wroteon the whiteboard on September 14, her last day.

“再会了孩子们。提拉多老师爱你们并祝你们有美好的人生。我因为拒绝给没交作业的孩子们打50分而被解雇了。”这位前八年级美国历史教师在她工作的最后一天，九月十四日，在白板上写了这段话。

Because Tirado was in her first year of teaching (a probationary period) at West Gate, there was no official reason listed on her termination notice. However, the 52-year-old says it was because she didn’t follow the school’s policy which reads, “NO ZEROS- LOWEST POSSIBLE GRADE IS 50%.”

提拉多仍处于一年试用期内，因此在她的解雇信里并没有明确写明解雇缘由。这位52岁的教师相信这是因为她没有遵守学校的明文政策-“无零分-最低分不得低于总分的50%”。

Tirado, who found out about the rule after she gave zeros to several students who didn’t turn in a notebook explorer assignment, disagrees with the policy. She believes grades should be earned, explaining to WPTV, “I’m so upset because we have a nation of kids that are expecting to get paid and live their life just for showing up and it’s not real.”

提拉多直到给出分数之后才了解到学校的相关政策。她对此并不赞同。她认为成绩应该通过努力得到。在同WPTV的采访中，她说：“我们国家的孩子期待不劳而获，这不是真实的社会。我对此深感沮丧。”

In a follow-up Facebook post, Tirado said, “Teaching should not be this hard. Teachers teach content, children do the assignments to the best of their ability and teachers grade that work based on a grading scale that has been around a very long time. Teachers also provide numerous attempts to get the work collected so they can give a child a grade.”

在事后的脸书贴中，提拉多说：“教书育人本不应如此艰难。老师传授知识，学生尽最大努力完成作业。老师依据长期遵守的分数表给予分数。老师并且会多次尝试收齐作业，让每个孩子都能得到打分。”

However, a spokesperson from the school district told WPTVthat “there is no District or individual school policy prohibiting teachers from recording a grade of zero for work not turned in.” And in a statement to KSAT, they said that Tirado was let go for “sub-standard” performance and interactions with students and parents that “lacked professionalism and created a toxic culture.”

不过，来自学校的发言人对WPTV说：“并没有任何来自区教育部门或者学校的不允许老师给未交作业的孩子打零分的政策。”在发给KSAT的声明中，他们说提拉多的解雇原因是“不理想的工作表现以及在与学生和家长的沟通中缺乏专业素质，形成了有毒害的氛围。”

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