West Chester Area School Board v. West Chester Area Education Ass'n

WOOD, J.,

This case is presently before me for disposition of appellant School Board’s petition to vacate and/or modify the award of the arbitrator, Arthur A. Sloane, entered in this matter on May 18, 1990. Oral argument was heard on January 7, 1991.

The case arose from an incident which occurred on June 8, 1989. On that date, while school was in session, Daniel Reitmeyer, a teacher at Pierce Middle School, produced a sheet of paper labeled “Jesse Jackson’s White Friends Quiz” containing 40 questions and answers highly offensive and demeaning to persons of the black race. Reitmeyer proceeded to…