Posted by Fired Fred on June 26, 2007 4:52 PM
Doesn't poor work in college deserve a failing grade? Heather Flowers thought some of her microbiology students at the University of Mississippi Medical Center got what they deserved: big, fat F's on their transcripts for flunking her class.
The school thought differently and asked her to change those grades to incompletes. Heather F refused. A firing ensued.
She's not happy...
Flowers said she refused to change the grades to incompletes out of a sense of responsibility. The students who go through the program in which she taught go on to become medical technologists.She and the school are peaceably working out their differences. Yeah, right. She's put the school on notice that she plans to sue them for wrongful termination, defamation and violation of the state's whistleblower law just as soon as she legally can.
With no state governing body for med techs, once they graduate they are free to work in doctors' offices and hospitals.
Med techs work on samples collected by doctors and nurses.
"The only way to regulate this is through their education," Flowers said. "There's nothing (else) stopping them from killing patients."
Heather F says she knows why the school prodded her to fix those failures...
"They're changing grades to keep students from losing financial aid," Flowers said. "They're all about tuition, tuition, tuition. If you fail a student, what do you lose? Tuition."Sounds like she just learned a valuable lesson about the real world. People are temporary, but cash flows are forever.
Reason for leaving last job: fired for biting autistic 3 year old boy, but the little monster bit me first!