This has been a very busy week in the online teacher training course. I'm sure that when Shirely estimated that it would take 6 hours per week, she was using that as a starting point for the time commitment. By the time I finished viewing all the links, watching videos, etc., I must've spent more than that amount of time!
Something that surprised me was everyone's responses to the TA who posted the comment about marking on FB. I was the first to post, and I thought, "Hey, no big deal. Everyone makes mistakes, and marking really is a Sisyphean task. I get where she's coming from!". I thought certainly she shouldn't be fired, perhaps reprimanded, but not fired. We all make mistakes.
Well, let me say that I was the only one who thought that!
Perhaps I made some assumptions about what happened, and to be honest I'm still puzzled as to how this actually happened. Did she make the mistake of "friending" her students and forgot that she had done so? Did one of her co-workers rat her out? Did she forget to turn her privacy settings on? Am I just making excuses for her bad behaviour?
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt, even though what she did seems inexcusable. Maybe this would make me a good juror . . . Maybe it's that I'm not perfect either, and I would hope that people would forgive me if I did such a stupid thing . . . Who really knows?
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