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• W201047290 abstract "NANCY SEKOR was a tenured teacher at the high school in Ridgefield, Connecticut, from 1980 until 1989, when she took a leave of absence. She taught business courses, as she had at Ridgefield's junior high school before it had been converted into a middle school that was organized into houses. Her ratings as a teacher were favorable. During her 1989-90 leave, she obtained certification in social studies and English. On her return, her assignment for 1990-91 was to teach business classes at both the middle school and the high school and, because of declining enrollments in business, one social studies class at the middle school. On 7 November 199O, after observing Sekor's eighth-grade social studies class, Adeline Merrill, who was one of the three house administrators at the middle school, placed her a corrective action plan,' based on perceived deficiencies in her methods. The included regular-meetings with the chair of the social studies department and regular observations of Sekor's classroom performance. On 4 January 1991 Merrill placed Sekor an assistance plan and warned her that her employment would be terminated if her teaching did not improve. A June 1991 evaluation noted some improvement in her performance. The improvement, however, was apparently deemed insufficient, for on 16 September 1991 the middle school principal, Mary Capwell, officially notified Sekor that her performance was unsatisfactory. For 1991-92 Sekor's assignment was to teach two business classes and three English classes at the middle school. She continued in the intensive assistance program. On 3 October 1991, after observing Sekor teaching an eighth-grade English class in which students were composing stories and writing diary entries, Capwell reprimanded her for permitting a student to use a word such as damn or hell in his story. On 17 January 1992 another of Capwell's house administrators conducted a formal observation of Sekor as she taught an eighth-grade English class. In her report, the administrator criticized Sekor for leading a class discussion on similarities between Jesus Christ and a character in a short story that the students had read. She wrote in the observation report that under no circumstances should a teacher in a public school initiate discussion or dwell on religious themes . . . [and] an historical context is the only acceptable one in which one may teach religious concepts in the classroom. Later in January Capwell informed Sekor that her performance was well below established standards and that she planned to recommend her termination. As a prerequisite to filing suit, Sekor promptly filed a complaint with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, alleging discrimination based on age. On 23 March 1992 Ridgefield's board of education voted to consider Sekor's termination based on incompetency. A tripartite hearing panel (which included an impartial member, as required by Connecticut's teacher termination statute) conducted hearings from May 1992 through January 1993. The 28 days of hearings were followed by four executive sessions. Meanwhile, in June 1992, on being suspended with pay pending the outcome of the termination proceedings, Sekor filed suit in the federal district court in Connecticut against Capwell and the Ridgefield board. She claimed that 1) the suspension was a violation of her 14th Amendment right of due process because the defendants had failed to give her a pre-suspension hearing and had published false allegations in her personnel file and during the public hearings; 2) the defendant board's ratification of the criticisms of her for permitting a student to use damn or hell and for bringing a comparison of Christ into a class literary discussion violated her First Amendment speech right to academic freedom; and 3) the defendants' adverse actions, including but not limited to her suspension, discriminated against her on the basis of age, in violation of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and also retaliated against her for filing an ADEA complaint. …" @default.
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