Board of School Directors of Fox Chapel Area School District v. Rossetti

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

On July 17, 1975, appellee, Cheryl Rossetti, a fifth-grade teacher, requested a maternity leave from the Board of School Directors of Fox Chapel Area School District (the Board). The Board granted the requested maternity leave; and, upon a second request, it granted an additional four-week extension.1 Appellee was to resume her teaching duties on January 13,1976; but by letter of January 5,1976, *128appellee requested a leave of absence for the remainder of the 1975-76 school year. Appellee stated in this letter to the Superintendent of the Fox Chapel Area School District…