SLOCKETT v. IOWA VAL. COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST.

No. 83-1361.

359 N.W.2d 446 (1984)

Joanne SLOCKETT, Appellant, v. IOWA VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, The Board of Directors of the Iowa Valley Community School District, as an Entity, and Individual Members of the Board, Ronald J. Thompson, Robert Loffer, and Maurice Hartz, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Sayre and Becky S. Knutson of Sayre & Gribble, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Glenn L. Johnson of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.C., Cedar Rapids, and L.C. McMeen, Marengo, for appellees.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P.J., and HARRIS, McCORMICK, McGIVERIN, and WOLLE, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

The question here is whether a coaching contract created a tenured teaching position. The trial court held the position was an extra-duty assignment, unprotected by Iowa's teacher tenure statutes. We agree.

Plaintiff was first employed by defendant district as a teacher for the 1973-74 school year in September 1973. According to the contract, plaintiff was hired both as a physical education instructor and junior high basketball coach. A similar...

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