Thomas v. BOARD OF EDUCATION COMMUNITY UNIT SCH DIST. NO. 1

Verna Hugh Thomas, a tenured teacher in Community Unit School District No. 1 of Pope County, sought a declaratory judgment that the board of education acted capriciously and arbitrarily in requiring him to provide typed copies of final examinations and in placing a letter of remediation in his personnel file for failure to do so. The plaintiff appeals from the judgment of the circuit court of Pope County granting the defendant school board’s motion for a directed verdict.

Thomas had taught in the school district for 11 years. In 1982, his principal required for the first time that Thomas,…