Wyoma Sam Fong v. Jerome School District No. 261

SWANSTROM, Judge Pro Tem.

In the spring of 1977 appellant, Wyoma Sam Fong, was completing her second year of employment as a mathematics teacher at Jerome Junior High School. She had been a teacher for approximately ten years.

In April 1977, following complaints by some parents, the Superintendent of the Jerome School District learned that a few teachers employed by the school had given an unusually high percentage of failing grades. He learned from the State Department of Education that the statewide average failure rate was approximately 7%. Exclusive of the junior high school, the average…