Legal Opinion

Lockhart v. Board of Education of Arapahoe County School District No. 6

Colorado Court of Appeals

Decided December 18, 1986No. 85CA0041PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BABCOCK, Judge.

Petitioner, Roger Lockhart, seeks review of the order of respondent, Board of Education of Arapahoe County School District No. 6 (Board), dismissing him from his position as a tenured teacher. We affirm and remand with directions.

Petitioner, a tenured high school psychology teacher, refused to participate in faculty hall supervision duties, based on his conviction that hall duty was “morally and ethically unacceptable” and would “compromise [his] efforts to teach [his] classes in a democratic way” because it was “a negation of his classroom teaching that students are…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Ricci v. DavisSupreme Court of Colorado · 1981
  4. deKoevend v. Board of Education of West End School District RE-2Supreme Court of Colorado · 1984
  5. Blair v. LovettSupreme Court of Colorado · 1978

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Evans v. Board of County Commissioners of County of Boulder, ColoradoDistrict Court, D. Colorado · 1991
  2. Ridgeway v. Kiowa School District C-2Colorado Court of Appeals · 1989
  3. Kemp v. State Board of AgricultureColorado Court of Appeals · 1990
  4. Wolny v. City of BozemanMontana Supreme Court · 2001
  5. Snyder v. Jefferson County School District R-1Colorado Court of Appeals · 1992

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