Heights elementary schools, filed and recently won a lawsuit against the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners on counts of constructive discharge and breach of contract.
Dunston received compensation in the amounts of $183,000 for constructive discharge while working at Eutaw Marshburn and $110,000 for breach of contract while at Rognel Heights. Dunston was awarded a total of $293,000 but a financial cap on cases of constructive discharge reduced her payout to $210,000.
During her stint at Eutaw Marshburn, Dunston was assaulted twice by a 13-year-old, fifth-grade student, a situation she felt was mishandled by the school. The student was reinstated, she said. Then, the principal reassigned Dunston to another grade over the summer without notification and did not give her training materials. He then fired her because she couldn’t perform those duties, a violation of union guidelines.
When she joined the faculty at Rognel Heights thereafter, Dunston became aware of testing irregularities, which she reported to the Maryland State Department of Education. Upon learning of Dunston’s report, the school’s principal fired her, she said.
Though she expected to be fired for blowing the whistle, Dunston felt compelled to speak out.
“My certification means the same as my driver’s license. I wanted the world to know that these were principals that were supposed to be leaders and yet, they did not do a good job,” she said. And there are many more teachers who feel the same.
"There are many teachers who would like to speak up, who would like to tell but they're scared to tell,” Dunston said. “They're scared to tell because of what happened to me, the retaliation. They fear for their job—everybody needs a job at this point."
That's why so-called "friends" and "colleagues" will lie their asses off in "due process" hearings and even trials. I can't understand the mentality, a sociopath's mentality, really, that says it is okay to lie about a colleague in order to preserve his or her own job.
Dunston's payout is a pittance, really. And even if it is a pittance, the fucking school board is going to waste tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in order to "save" a couple of hundred thousand.
Pay it up, you dumb shits.
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Teachers fired after Hurricane Katrina can keep their class-action lawsuit.
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A fired teacher gets a court-ordered reinstatement, a rarity in this climate, yet the school district officials wonder how they can come up with her back pay.
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