COOPER v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. COA98-1446.

519 S.E.2d 536 (1999)

Gloria Remona COOPER, Petitioner, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR NASH-ROCKY MOUNT SCHOOLS, and Nash-Rocky Mount Schools, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robinson Law Office, by Charles Everett Robinson, Rocky Mount, for petitioner-appellant.

Valentine, Adams & Lamar, L.L.P., by L. Wardlaw Lamar, Nashville, for respondent-appellee Board of Education for Nash-Rocky Mount Schools.


EDMUNDS, Judge.

Petitioner, an African-American at-will employee of the Nash-Rocky Mount Schools, worked as a school bus driver and teacher's assistant. After school on 25 March 1997, petitioner told an African-American male student misbehaving on her school bus to "act your age and not your color." Several students on the bus reacted so strongly that petitioner felt compelled to return to school immediately.

School administrators suspended petitioner with...

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