Confronting an Impaired Educator on the Job

Type: Article
Topics: District & School Operations, School Administrator Magazine

January 01, 2020

Legal Brief

A SUPERINTENDENT RECEIVES a phone call from an elementary school principal, asking for immediate in-person assistance. A 1st grader had just walked into the principal’s office, asking for someone to come to his classroom and “wake up our teacher.”

The principal responds immediately. Upon entering the classroom, he finds the teacher asleep on her desk, responsive but only somewhat coherent.

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Author

V. Wayne Young

Education Lawyer & Retired Executive Director of the Kentucky Association of School Administrators

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