Teachers fired for derogatory Slack messages about pupils

Rhode Island school employees fired after private chat referring to particular pupils as "dumb", "idiots" and "toxic" was leaked

The old adage, don't write anything down in an email you wouldn't say publicly, appears to apply to chat now too, after three teachers were fired for calling their pupils "idiots" in a private chat.

The Rhode Island school teachers were using Slack - the darling of Silicon Valley that pitches to be better than email - when their messages were leaked.