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Kendall McCook until March 1st,
was an English teacher at Fort Worth
Dunbar High School, he spent all
day in the school administration building
because he would not fill out a seating
chart for his classes and direct
disobedience to an order from his
principal. And he was suspended
without pay for a month.
And when the board said it planned to
fire him for insubordination, he
requested this public hearing.
It would be easy to oversimplify the
issues at hand, but testimony indicated
it's basically a difference in
philosophies between McCook and his
principal, Joe Young.
McCook insists he believes in
personalized individual teaching
and that putting students into slots in
a seating chart would destroy that
concept. In his classes,
Young and several other administrators
testified the seating chart is a helpful
tool, especially for substitute teachers
who don't know the class members.
The school district presented what would
have been prosecution evidence if this
were a court of law until 345.
Then Macoutes case began and
when the board adjourned at five fifteen,
it still was not completed.
There were six board members hearing the
case.
Law requires that all six hear
the entire case.
And after consulting the calendar, it was
discovered the soonest all six could get
together again was the 6th of July.
So that's when the case will continue.
Joe Stroop The Texas News.
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