Board of Education of Central School District No. 2 v. Allen

In October of 1953 the kindergarten teacher of the Central School District No. 2 of the Towns of Virgil, Harford, Lapeer and Cortlandville, Cortland County, submitted her resignation effective November 25, 1953. The principal was unable to secure a new kindergarten teacher and so the fourth grade teacher, Dorothy Young Williams, who was also qualified to teach kindergarten, agreed to teach the kindergarten. The vacancy in the fourth grade was filled by the appointment effective November 30, 1953 of Marion Griswold as a “temporary substitute” and at a substitute’s rate of pay. On March 26,…