Beaverton School District No. 48 v. Employment Division

Employer Beaverton School District appeals from a determination by the Employment Appeals Board that claimant "voluntarily left work with good cause” and was not, therefore, ineligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits.1

Trained in special education and behavior modification techniques, claimant was initially hired as an instructor by the District in September 1973 and assigned to teach a class of children with particularly severe emotional and behavioral problems in September 1974. In the course of the 1974-75 school year claimant’s performance as an instructor apparently proved…