Gant v. Waggy

This is an appeal by Nancy M. Gant and certain other teachers at the Franklin Elementary School in Franklin, West Virginia, from a decision of the Circuit Court of Pendleton County interpreting W.Va. Code, 18A-4-14, a statute which mandates that public school teachers be provided with a “planning period” during the school day. The appellants, in their proceeding before the lower court, took the position that the statute required that they, as teachers, be provided with a single planning period at least as long as their usual teaching period. The circuit court, in effect, ruled that the…