Hamm v. Board of Education for School District of Philadelphia

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Gerald O. Hamm, Ph.D., appeals from an order of the Gonrt of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County dismissing his exceptions to the order granting appellees1 2compulsory nonsuit motion.

In accordance with the mandatory retirement provision of Section 1122 of the Public School Code (Code), 24 P..S. §11-1122,2 the Board of Education forcibly retired Ham.m, a high school teacher with more than twenty-five yeans experience in the Philadelphia school district, ,at the age of ¡sixty-six. Seeking reinstatement and challenging the constitutionality of Section 1122 under the…