Cook v. Board of Education of the Sturgis Public Schools

Petitioner began her employment with respondent school district on March 3, 1975. She worked in the guidance counseling department at the Sturgis Middle School for the remainder of that school year. In the summer of 1975, petitioner accepted a teaching contract with respondent for the 1975-1976 school year. Thereafter, she was employed as a teacher until the end of the 1976-1977 school year. On March 30, 1977, respondent took action to dismiss petitioner. She received a notice of unsatisfactory performance on April 5, 1977. She was dismissed as if she were a probationary teacher, in that she…