Simmons v. Marlette Board of Education

Does Article II, § 3 of the Michigan teacher tenure act (MCLA 38.83; MSA 15.1983) require a board of education, when terminating a probationary teacher’s services, to set forth within the required definite written statement specific and detailed areas in which the teacher’s services were unsatisfactory? This question of first impression 1 and of considerable importance to school authorities comes to us on the following facts.

Plaintiff was a first-year probationary teacher hired by defendants for the school year 1973-74. At least once in February and again in March 1974, defendant’s principal…