DT> MS>DT> MS>    There are 17 appeals-court-level cases on firing 
DT> tenured 
DT> MS>DT> teachers
DT> MS>DT> MS>in  this state.  The key one "Thompson vs. Bd. of 
DT> Education"
DT> MS>DT> MS>shows that even  physical abuse that would get a parent
DT> MS>DT> arrested if he  did
DT> MS>DT> MS>it to his own kid  will not be sufficient to fire a tenured 
DT> MS>DT> teacher.
DT> 
DT> As you will recall in a reread of the post I made I was taking 
DT> exception 
DT> to your assertion that teachers can abuse children and not be held 
DT> accountable before the law.  I seriously doubt this...consider the 
DT> two 
DT> recent cases where female teachers were accused (and one convicted) 
DT> of 
DT> sexual misconduct.  I know of teachers who lost jobs after many years 
DT> of 
DT> teaching for unprofessional conduct.  Tenure?  I haven't given it 
DT> much 
DT> thought but I will look at the material you send me and give you my 
DT> opinion.  
    North Carolina has cases of firing of tenured teachers for sexual 
misconduct being upheld, but one (Crump) also ended with the district having 
to pay the teacher $78,000 in the teacher's claim that he was fired due to 
his notoriety for the same actions the state supreme court said justified his 
firing.
    I will email you the physical-abuse case, though, and I ask you to post 
your views of the case on this echo.
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