James v. Trumbull County Board of Education

Ford, Presiding Judge.

Appellee, Marianne Borsic James, was employed by appellant, Trumbull County Board of Education, as a teacher at appellant’s Lordstown Elementary multihandicapped unit, working with seventeen students who had a myriad of handicaps, including Down’s Syndrome, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, blindness, and deafness. After allegations were raised by, as characterized by appellant in its brief, “disgruntled aides,” 1 appellant conducted an investigation of appellee’s therapy techniques. The co-workers claimed that appellee was abusing the children by employing…