Board of Public Education v. August

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

The fidelity, candor and intellectual honesty which a school teacher owes to the public school system of which he forms a part is the subject matter of this appeal. The precise issue is whether a school teacher who refuses to cooperate with the school superintendent in an inquiry on the matter of’loyalty to the United States may be dismissed on the ground of incompetency, which is one of the reasons assigned in the School Code for dismissal.

The facts leading up to a determination of that issue may be summarized as follows:

*231In 1934 Bernard August was engaged as a…