Legal Opinion
In re the Arbitration between Bernstein & Norwich City School District Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 10, 2001PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Peters, J.
In May 1998, petitioner, a tenured English teacher in the Norwich High School located within the Norwich City School District (hereinafter District), was charged by respondent with conduct unbecoming a teacher, insubordination, neglect of duty and incompetence for using inappropriate verbiage during the course of a lesson. A hearing was held during January and March 1999. At the hearing, four students from petitioner’s eleventh grade English honors class testified that in the beginning of the 1997-1998 school year, petitioner used the words “penis” and “clitoris”…
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