Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Bridgman Public Schools
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided August 29, 2007No. Docket 261349PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTalbot, J.
Bridgman Public Schools (the school district) appeals by leave granted the State Tenure Commission’s rejection of the appointed hearing referee’s decision to terminate the employment of James Lewis *437as a teacher and imposition of a long-term suspension without pay as the disciplinary consequence for his misconduct. We reverse and remand.
This case arose when Lewis, a high school teacher with 12 years of teaching experience, presented his 18-year old male teaching assistant, a student at the high school, with an air gun as a Christmas gift. Presentation of the gift was made while on school…
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