Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 5:19
Principal receives backlash after tone-deaf Twitter post in the wake of a student’s death
You should be posting as a representative of the school that you lead and what your school is doing to provide support to the students and how grieved your school is in this loss. Why are we talking about self when it's a school that we are responsible for? So, yeah, I think Tiffany, she got what was coming to her. And I'm not mad at people for being mad. I'm mad at Tiffany myself. This was completely uncalled for and out of line
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:42
I know even I, as a person who prefers to be a homebody, I still have great communications with people outside my home, within my family, and things like that. It's important to keep those connections together. And as a principal of the school, or even if you're a teacher, you don't want to just be posting things on social media but not developing a strong rapport with your fellow coworkers and the students
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:18
And thankfully, we never lost an active student, but we had students that we lost the students, of course, after they graduated, and we lost a student who would have been in 11th grade, but she ended up transferring from our state regional school to her town school, but all the kids knew her, and it was neighborhood wise. And I remember how her death really rocked school students, the teachers, everybody. And she wasn't even a current active students here
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 0:48
So if she would have gave a little bit more background and reached out to the parents and the faculty and the students a little more, maybe there would have been some grace. But it seems like she just backed out, which means she really is the epitome of her last name. Thank you for sharing your post
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:35
We knew he had been in and out of the hospital. But you just never think that somebody your age, at 1617 years old is going to die. So when stuff like that happens, you need support in place to help students understand it at their level of understanding. At 16 years old, their level of understanding and to try to make something that doesn't make sense, make as much sense as you can
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:18
But at the end of the day, it takes just putting ourselves in people's shoes to see how they feel. I know back in the day, I was in elementary school when one of our classmates got hit by a truck and died. And I remember the collective feeling was of sadness. Teachers and counselors, even back then, back in the day, were available and ready to speak with us and talk to us in the best way they could to get us to understand what happened