Social studies teacher Diane Tirado, 52, said she was fired for refusing to follow the “No Zero” policy
She did not even have the time to say goodbye to her students, so she left this message on a whiteboard instead:
For the first assignment of the semester, Tirado asked her students to keep a journal in the same way a 15th-century explorer would
After some students in her class didn’t hand the homework in, however, she said she didn’t think they deserved any credit
Her story reignited the ongoing debate about education in the United States
She even went to state her opinion in the news
After that, many people (including teachers) were quick to respond