Gattis v. Scotland County Board of Education

WYNN, Judge.

Section 115C-325(n) of the North Carolina General Statutes mandates that a probationary teacher must appeal a school board’s decision to not renew her contract within thirty days of notification. In this case, because Plaintiff did not appeal from the school board’s nonrenewal decision until some six months after she received the notification, we must uphold the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants.

The underlying facts tend to show that Plaintiff Amy Gattis was hired as a probationary teacher at Carver Middle School for the 2002-2003 school year. At the…