COLUMBUS, Ohio — No one at the Catholic high school that fired Carla Hale in March claimed that she was anything less than a terrific physical education teacher and coach, devoted to the kids and adored by many of them.

No one accused her of bringing her personal life into the gym or onto the fields. By nature she’s private. And she loved her job too much to risk it that way.

But she lost it nonetheless, and the how is as flabbergasting as the why is infuriating.

See http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/opinion/bruni-one-schools-catholic-teaching.html?src=mv

Read this column by Frank Bruni in the New York Times.

Hint:   (Her mother’s obituary was the trigger)