Board of Educ. of Hopkins County v. Wood

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals which reversed a judgment of the circuit court upholding the termination of two tenured teachers for conduct unbecoming a teacher pursuant to KRS 161.790.

The issue is whether the contracts of tenured teachers may be terminated for immoral conduct or conduct unbecoming a teacher for off-campus activities involving students when no written records of such conduct are in the personnel file.

In 1983, a Hopkins County grand jury while investigating a murder received testimony from two 15-year-old girls that two days prior…