L.H. v. Pittston Area School District

MEMORANDUM

MALACHY E. MANNION, District Judge.

“Shut up.” “It’s day 13 and I can’t stand you already.” “I’m not the only teacher who can’t stand you.” “You’re going to have the [worst] year ever.” Do you have “a problem” or “Tourette’s2?”

These, are words-;one would not expect a school teacher to speak to a student, let alone in front of a classroom of his peers. They are unprofessional and unacceptable to say the least. There is no real dispute in this case that a teacher in the Pittston Area- School District said these words to an eighth grade student- in front of his classmates. The incident…