Frye v. School Committee

The petitioner seeks reinstatement to her position as a teacher in the public high school in Leicester. If she had acquired the status of a teacher employed “at discretion" she could be dismissed only in accordance with G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 71, § 42, as amended by St. 1934, c. 123, the provisions of which were not observed. The issue depends upon whether or not she had acquired that status.

Section 41 provides, in so far as here material, that the school committee “in electing a teacher . . . who has served in its public schools for the three previous consecutive school years . . . shall employ…