Gabriel v. Trinity Area School District

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

Appellant, Daniel Gabriel, was a teacher of German in the Trinity Area School District (District) for six years. By letter dated May 11, 1973, he was informed that he was being suspended for the following school year because of a decrease in the number of students taking instruction in German. This decrease resulted, in large part, from the removal of elective foreign language instruction in the eighth grade as part of a districtwide plan to incorporate the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades into a middle school. Appellant and a Mr. William Adams were the only German…