Janice Stough and Sheila H. Sasser v. Crenshaw County Board of Education: John Rex Sport, Etc.

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The Crenshaw County Board of Education, the defendant below, adopted a patronage policy in 1976 which prohibits board employees from sending their children to private schools. Janice Stough and Sheila Sasser, the plaintiffs, are tenured teachers employed by the defendant. In 1982, both women requested an exemption from the policy so that they could enroll their children in Crenshaw Christian Academy, a virtually all-white private school. The board denied the requests and warned that the plaintiffs’ employment would be terminated if they did not adhere to…