Wright v. Superintending Sch. Com., City of Portland

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion on two grounds. First, I cannot accede to the constricted view of “unfitness to teach” advanced by the Court when it holds, as a matter of law, that a single, isolated instance of grave lack of judgment which does not involve such moral impropriety, professional incompetency, or unsuitability to the discharge of his duties as to undermine the teacher’s future classroom performance and overall impact on his students does not constitute “unfitness to teach” within the intendment of 20 M. R.S.A. § 473(4). Secondly, the majority barely concedes…