KETTERING — The Kettering school board on Tuesday night approved the suspension of Fairmont High School English teacher Michael Togliatti without pay, pending the termination of his contract. Togliatti, a 10-year veteran of the school with no prior disciplinary record, is accused of engaging in unprofessional and disrespectful conduct toward students...“You demeaned and embarrassed certain students,” Justice wrote, by allegedly calling them “idiots,” “airheads,” and “freaking morons;” telling students to “shut up” and “repeatedly” using profanity directed at students. “You told a student that nothing smart could ever come out of her mouth, and that nobody likes her anyway,” the letter stated. “You had a picture of the superintendent next to your desk, and periodically ridiculed him to your students.”
First of all, Michael Togliatti didn't get fired for telling it to these kids how it is, straight real talk. Nope, he got fired for being a hero, that and a complete idiot himself, the only mistake he made here was forgetting the number one lesson we all learned from Saving Private Ryan; There is a griping chain of command:
Capt. Miller: I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a Captain. We have a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, and so on and so on and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that, as a Ranger.
I mean, nothing this guy said is that outlandish, and if he did it in the office of his Principal or with a co-worker in the teachers lounge we wouldn't even be discussing this. In fact it doesn't even sound like he crossed the line, sounds more like constructive criticism if you ask me. It's not like he called anyone a 'tard or called out a pregnant girl for being a slut, but that's the problem with kids these days, they're all entitled pricks. No one's ever once told them that their lives may not turn out gumdrops and sugar plums later on.
But this is exactly what happens when you flaunt the griping chain of command, the whole system breaks down, all the power goes to the underlings. Works across all walks of life too, I don't care if you work in a school, in the army, or are a middle manager for a gigantic corporate company...it always flows up. I'm not out there griping to my direct reports about all the shit I think sucks about the job. That's strictly a behind doors conversation with my manager, who presumably goes to his manager to gripe about how I'm always griping, which then in turn gets run up the flagpole higher, and so on and so on.
But this is exactly what happens when you flaunt the griping chain of command, the whole system breaks down, all the power goes to the underlings. Works across all walks of life too, I don't care if you work in a school, in the army, or are a middle manager for a gigantic corporate company...it always flows up. I'm not out there griping to my direct reports about all the shit I think sucks about the job. That's strictly a behind doors conversation with my manager, who presumably goes to his manager to gripe about how I'm always griping, which then in turn gets run up the flagpole higher, and so on and so on.
