Former Middletown High School Language Teacher Sal Caracoglia Dies at 63

Longtime Middletown High School Spanish and Italian language teacher Salvatore Caracoglia died Tuesday at Middlesex Hospital, according to his obituary at Legacy.com. He was 63.

The former Middletown Youth Soccer and Middletown High School soccer coach also served as president of the Garibaldi Italian Society. He was an outspoken critic of the school board and common council and passionately voiced his opinion during public sessions.

In October 2011, Caracoglia spoke at length at a Board of Education meeting, according to a report in the Middletown Press. A Middletown Press video records the outburst.

In March 2012, Caracoglia sued the Middletown Board of Education and the police department on accusations authorities stopped him from addressing the board during a public meeting in 2008.

In 1995, Caracoglia was let go by the school district after being cited for insubordination, misconduct and harassment. He had sued another teacher in the district, alleging that she spread false rumors about him, but he lost that lawsuit in 1998.

He also had a run-in with police in the late 1990s after he allegedly threatened that same teacher, according to a Hartford Courant report.