Barcheski v. Board of Education of Grand Rapids Public Schools

This case involves a challenge to the discharge of a tenured teacher employed by the Grand Rapids Public Schools. In an order dated January 2, 1986, the Ingham Circuit Court affirmed a June 30, 1983, ruling of the State Tenure Commission that the discharge was based on reasonable and just cause. We affirm.

In order to place this case in perspective, it is necessary briefly to recount the case’s eleven-year procedural history. Petitioner, Robert Barcheski, obtained status as a tenured teacher in the Grand Rapids Public Schools at the close of the 1971-72 school year. On October 18, 1976, the…