Hill v. Independent School District No. 25 of Adair County

¶ 1 After a due process hearing, Appel-lee, Stilwell School District, dismissed a career teacher, Appellant, Donna Hill, who served as a certified high-school guidance counselor, on the grounds of moral turpitude and willful neglect of duty. Following the hearing, Hill filed a petition in the district court for a trial de novo. Finding Hill had falsified certain entries on the transcripts of several students, including that of her own daughter, and that such acts constituted willful neglect of duty and moral turpitude, the trial court sustained School District’s decision to dismiss Hill. We…