Strong v. Alabama State Tenure Commission

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

Frances Strong, a tenured teacher employed by the Demopolis City Board of Education (Board), received written notice on May 24, 1990 informing her that the Board had voted to assign her to three periods of physical education and three periods of science, effective for the 1990-91 school year. She had previously taught six periods of physical education.

Strong apparently met with the superintendent of education and informed him that she considered the assignment to constitute a “transfer” and that she would not accept it. The superintendent, by written…