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Teacher Fired for Rescuing Children From Fire
A teacher must live in a world where every action is micromanaged by plodding bureaucrats — until she gets fired:
[W]hen Michelle Hammack, a teacher at the Little Temples Childcare facility in Arlington, Fla., smelled smoke and the children were napping, she rushed out of her classroom to investigate. (Arlington is a neighborhood of Jacksonville.)
Seeing that chicken nuggets were burning in an oven, she was able to put out the fire before even the fire trucks arrived on the scene, according to a report by WTEV-TV in Jacksonville. Her boss, however, wasn’t impressed. On that same day, the owner of the childcare facility Olga Rozhaov fired Hammack.
Rozhakov defended her decision to the media. “I fired her only because she left her room,” she told the TV station.
You would think Hammack had started the fire, rather than putting it out; or that she had abandoned the kids in her care, rather than evacuating them from the building.
As George Zimmerman learned the hard way, showing individual initiative will not be tolerated. Hammack should have trusted that the authorities would arrive on the scene in time to clean up the charred bodies.
A teacher must live in a world where every action is micromanaged by plodding bureaucrats — until she gets fired:
[W]hen Michelle Hammack, a teacher at the Little Temples Childcare facility in Arlington, Fla., smelled smoke and the children were napping, she rushed out of her classroom to investigate. (Arlington is a neighborhood of Jacksonville.)
Seeing that chicken nuggets were burning in an oven, she was able to put out the fire before even the fire trucks arrived on the scene, according to a report by WTEV-TV in Jacksonville. Her boss, however, wasn’t impressed. On that same day, the owner of the childcare facility Olga Rozhaov fired Hammack.
Rozhakov defended her decision to the media. “I fired her only because she left her room,” she told the TV station.
You would think Hammack had started the fire, rather than putting it out; or that she had abandoned the kids in her care, rather than evacuating them from the building.
As George Zimmerman learned the hard way, showing individual initiative will not be tolerated. Hammack should have trusted that the authorities would arrive on the scene in time to clean up the charred bodies.
