Knudson v. Boundary County School District No. 101

BURNETT, Judge.

We are asked to decide whether a local school board should be compelled to re-employ a teacher whose contract was not renewed after her first year of service. Leslie Knudson began teaching in the Boundary County school district on August 30, 1978. By mid-September she encountered student behavior problems, and later that month one of her seventh grade classes staged what she called a “rebellion.” As the academic year progressed, Ms. Knudson’s teaching was evaluated by the school principal. In the spring of 1979, the principal noted that Ms. Knudson still needed to “work at…