Board of Education v. Purse
Supreme Court of Georgia
Mandamus. Before Judge Fite. Bartow county. January 13, 1897. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Purse, citizens of Cartersville, had three daughters attending one of the public schools of that city.
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Mandamus. Before Judge Fite. Bartow county. January 13, 1897. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Purse, citizens of Cartersville, had three daughters attending one of the public schools of that city. In October, 1896, Mrs. Purse went to the school during its regular exercises and had some conversation with the teacher, the nature and purport of which seems to be in dispute, but as a consequence of which the teacher made a report to the superintendent of schools, who thereupon sent the following communication to Mr. Purse: “Dear Sir, — In consequence of your wife’s having entered Miss Hall’s room to-day…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
The official report states the facts.
When a parent goes to the schoolroom of a lawfully established public school and in the presence of his or her children and other pupils publicly calls in question the justice or correctness of a decision made by the teacher in a matter of discipline relating to such children, uses offensive and insulting language to such teacher, and acts in such a manner as to interrupt the exercises of the school, and conducts himself or herself in such a manner as to bring the teacher and the discipline of the school into contempt in the eyes of the pupils, it is not…
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