Database Search Result Details
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First Name
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MOSS
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Last Name
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BURGESS
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Decision Date
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8/22/1988
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Docket Number
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23-88-046
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ALJ
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JW
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Respondent
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LOGAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
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Employment Type
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PROF
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Job Title
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TEACHER
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Topics
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REPRIMAND
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Primary Issues
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WARNINGS, DISCIPLINE
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Outcome
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GRANTED
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Statutes
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Related Cases
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Keywords
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UNIFORMITY IN DISCIPLINE
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Intermediate Court of Appeals
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Circuit Court
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Supreme Court
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Synopsis
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G, HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, STATED IN THE PRESENCE OF TWO TEACHERS AND HIS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL THAT HE SCHOOL SECRETARY WAS LAZY. HE RECEIVED A WRITTEN WARNING, WHICH WAS PLACED IN HIS PERSONNEL FILE, TO THE EFFECT THAT THE COMMENT COULD HAVE 'POSSIBLE REPERCUSSIONS' NEGATIVE TO HARMONY AT THE SCHOOL. PREVIOUS OCCASION, ANOTHER TEACHER DURING A FACULTY MEETING, HAD STATED THAT CERTAIN UNIDENTIFIED TEACHERS WERE LAZY; SHE WAS NOT REPRIMANDED. DECISION: BOE POLICY PROVIDES THAT EMPLOYEES MAY BE DISCIPLINED BY WRITTEN WARNINGS; HOWEVER, THIS POLICY MUST BE APPLIED UNIFORMLY. THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT DISTINCTION BETWEEN G COMMENT AND OTHER TEACHER'S. WRITTEN WARNING ORDERED REMOVED FROM FILE. FURTHER, IGNORING G COMMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CONSISTENT WITH 'MAINTAINING HARMONY,' SINCE THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL REPORTED THE COMMENT TO THE SECRETARY. CODE S18-29-2(M) CITED BUT NOT RELIED UPON. GRANTED.
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