Kidd v. Georgia Ass'n of Educators, Inc.

Miller, Judge.

The Clarke County school superintendent recommended that Lamar Kidd be terminated as a school teacher. At the hearing on the matter before the local school board, Kidd’s nonlawyer representative (an employee of the Georgia Association of Educators, Inc.) failed to raise an argument that was later raised on appeal to the State Board of Education. The local board upheld the termination recommendation, and a second representative from GAE (this time an attorney) appealed the decision to the State Board of Education, which affirmed. The attorney then failed to file the appeal to the…