Simon v. Gibraltar School District

Plaintiff appeals the circuit court’s affirmance of her dismissal from employment by the teacher tenure commission. On appeal, we affirm.

Defendant Gibraltar School District hired plaintiff, formerly a tenured mathematics teacher in the Wyandotte schools, to teach high school mathematics in 1967. After one satisfactory year, plaintiff became tenured. In the summer of 1969 she assumed a nontenured position as a counselor-supervisor.

After friction developed between plaintiff and her immediate supervisor, the superintendent reviewed plaintiff’s employment application. He discovered questionable…