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Public School District Fires Katie Nash For Teaching Kid To Spell ‘Tomorrow’ — #FreeKatie #BringBackKatie Begins

By Paula Mooney
Published on: 12:57 PST, Jan 14, 2017

It might sound ridiculous that an employee in the field of education would be fired for teaching a child to spell a word correctly, but that’s exactly what happened to Katie Nash. According to Newser, Katie was fired by the Maryland public school district. Nash was apparently just doing her job as the social media director of the Frederick County Public Schools Twitter’s feed, @FCPSMaryland, when she replied to a student on January 5, who wondered if school would be closed the next day. Apparently, the student asked if schools could close “tammarow.”

Katie’s reply to the student on the school’s feed went viral, with Nash tweeting back the correct way to spell the word “tomorrow” and adding a smiley face to boot. After all, many people who are used to spelling “tomorrow” as “tmw” in texting language might not be as familiar with spelling the full word in everyday language. Katie quipped that if the student came to school the next day, perhaps they would learn how to spell “tomorrow” correctly.

“But then how would you learn how to spell ‘tomorrow?’ :)”

Nash’s reply went viral — entertaining and educational as it was, all at once — with her Twitter reply getting retweeted more than 1,000 times. Instead of enjoying the attention, apparently the school district freaked out and fired Katie for the “tomorrow” spelling correction.

As a result of her getting fired, responses began flowing into the school district’s social media account, asking for Katie to be reinstated to her job at the helm of the Twitter account. Responses like the following, with the hashtags #KatieFromFCPS, #FreeKatie, and #BringBackKatie began to flow into Twitter, in hopes that they would also go viral and get Katie her job back.

“I’m really disappointed in . This thing is a golden opportunity to stand by their people and push education.”

“No lie tho y’all gotta free my girl Katie ”

“If we want to bring back Katie then we must blow up mentions ”

“ WAY TOO HARSH! .”

“‘s Twitter followers seem to be on the rise since her termination was reported. ”

“Firing for one simple tweet? Was anyone actually offended by it? Outrageous ”

“Hey , need any social media help? You should hire !”

Indeed, most folks using the hashtags about Nash agree that her firing was too harsh of a punishment for any perceived slights against a student. According to WHAG, Nash was indeed fired by the school system, but they wouldn’t provide details. Katie had just begun her role as web experience coordinator for the school district in November. As seen in the below tweet, the student in question did not take Nash’s spelling lesson personally.

According to the Frederick News-Post, Katie revealed that students had been tweeting at the school district with questions and the like, and she wasn’t sure exactly how to reply — or to reply at all. It seems Nash’s witty reply represents the gray area in a world of social media that didn’t exist decades ago, with Nash not receiving exact guidelines on what to say or what not to say on Twitter. However, Katie assumed she’d eventually get some kind of training on how the school district would want her to reply to students on Twitter.

Instead, the school district abruptly fired Katie and she turned to comfort foods like ice cream — and a session on the Stairmaster — to burn off anxiety, according to her own personal Twitter feed.

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