Was it the way he ate his cannoli in the cafeteria? A Long Island substitute teacher has filed a federal discrimination complaint after he claims he was fired because of a rumor that "he was a member of the witness-relocation program." The Post reports that Alexander Piccirillo feels he was unfairly singled out by the Quogue school district "due to his Italian ethnicity and age."
Piccirillo says that the school fired him because he made "an inappropriate joke in class," presumably with the set up, "So Mickey Two-Times and Anthony Slim walk into a deli…" Female students allegedly told higher-ups that Piccirillo "creeped them out," but we see nothing creepy about, say, Antipasti Fridays or giving a double-cheek kiss salutation after the correct solution of a math problem. Piccirillo's claim is still under federal review. For a real substitute teaching scandal, turn to the cranky New Jersey sub who told a student they had a "learning disability."
