Wirt v. Parker School District 60-4

ZINTER, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Bonnie Wirt retired from the Parker School District after 39 years of teaching. Before the next school year started, she came out of retirement and accepted a new one-year contract of employment for the amount teachers without “continuing contract status” were paid. At the end of the new one-year contract, Wirt was terminated without the tenure protections given to continuing contract status teachers. Writ appealed to the circuit court contending that she had continuing contract status notwithstanding her retirement. The circuit court disagreed and granted summary…