Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD suspends hearing-impaired teacher over reporter's visit

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By AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning News
aselk@dallasnews.com
CARROLLTON – The Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD superintendent suspended a hearing-impaired teacher over a visit to her classroom by a Dallas Morning News reporter looking into the teacher's allegations that the district had threatened her job because of her disability.
KYE R. LEE/DMN
Kathleen Nosek has taught at Sheffield Intermediate School for 10 years. The district has questioned whether Kathleen Nosek can administer pronunciation tests to her special-education students without assistance – help that has been provided to her for years.

Nosek, a special-education teacher at Sheffield Intermediate School for the past 10 years, was escorted off school district property by police Wednesday after receiving a letter from Superintendent Bobby Burns informing her she had been suspended with pay for the visit. Burns wrote in the letter that Nosek's invitation to the reporter and his visit "may have violated various procedures, policies and legal requirements."
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I have been following this since yesterday. This same reporter wrote her article yesterday.

Really brief update because I'm on a tight deadline to write a real, actual article about this.

The special school board meeting to hear two employee grievances took place last night as scheduled. The board ruled against one of the grievance filers, employee Sheri Plybon. I didn't really get a chance to speak to her afterwards, so no details yet on what her grievance was about.

As for Sheffield Intermediate special-ed teacher Kathleen Nosek, the board voted to kick her grievance back to the district administration. What the decision basically means is Nosek have an opportunity to bring her grievance back to the board at a later date, along with a new grievance she filed just last week with further allegations against Sheffield principal Amy Miller. Nosek was pleased -- neither she nor her lawyer had been very optimistic going into the hearing.

Is that all? Not by a long shot. The details of Nosek's new grievance are interesting, to say the least. The article I have to go and write immediately ought to be interesting too. I'm still in the process of fact checking and don't want to spout off about it just yet. Stay tuned for updates in the very near future.
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This is absurd.
 
It is usually always hard to prove people been harrassing deaf people about their hearing to the point they quit their job. It happen all the time.. and always goes downhill once a deaf person work with them. It gets ugly because they like call it "deaf drama".
 
She may have a good case against the school district on her original discrimination charge but she went about it the wrong way by inviting the reporter into her classroom.
 
deafgal001 said:
Even reporters get all weird around deaf people.
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Oh, yes.. I am used to those reporters because of my art job. I never forget a reporter I met.. She talked way too fast. She was so hyper and too excited. I thought she was drinking too much coffee or something. Actually, she wrote my wrong age on the article..it said I was 16...!!!!!
 
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