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Deaf teacher continues to receive harassment over reporter visit - Dallas Autism & Parenting | Examiner.com
Kathleen Nosek, a deaf teacher in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, is still in the thick of it.
Earlier this month, Dallas Morning News reporter Avi Selk visited Nosek at her school in order to investigate allegations of harassment that Nosek had filed against Principal Amy Miller. During the reporter's visit, which was processed through the front office, the reporter and the teacher were escorted from the premises for "possible district policy violations." Nosek was put on paid leave pending investigation of the incident.
Now, it seems, the school district is attempting to extort a settlement out of Nosek using the reporter visit as a tool. As reported in the Farmers Branch blog of the Dallas Morning News, the school district offered to drop the investigation into the reporter visit if Nosek would agree to drop her allegations of harassment against her principal and return to work at another school in the district. When Nosek's lawyer requested that Nosek be allowed to write a letter to her students explaining why she had left them in the middle of the school year, the school district withdrew their offer.
Ironically, this whole incident happened during National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Kathleen Nosek, who has been a special education teacher in the CFB district for a decade, was told by her principal, Amy Miller, that she would no longer be able to have another teacher help her administer a pronunciation test to her students, but would have to do so herself in spite of a doctor's note saying her deafness made it impossible. Nosek filed harassment allegations against her principal with the district and these allegations brought the reporter to the school to get more information.
It is currently unclear how the matter will be settled, especially since the district lawyers refuse to explain why they want to use the investigation of the reporter visiting Nosek at school to force her to settle her own harassment complaint, which is completely unrelated. The retaliatory nature of the whole situation is unsettling at best, especially since the school district originally stated the investigation was unrelated to Nosek's allegations of harassment.
I urge you to pass this on to anyone concerned with equal rights for the disabled, and for everyone to write respectful letters of protest to the school district.
To contact the school district, click:
Superintendent Bobby Burns
Kathleen Nosek, a deaf teacher in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, is still in the thick of it.
Earlier this month, Dallas Morning News reporter Avi Selk visited Nosek at her school in order to investigate allegations of harassment that Nosek had filed against Principal Amy Miller. During the reporter's visit, which was processed through the front office, the reporter and the teacher were escorted from the premises for "possible district policy violations." Nosek was put on paid leave pending investigation of the incident.
Now, it seems, the school district is attempting to extort a settlement out of Nosek using the reporter visit as a tool. As reported in the Farmers Branch blog of the Dallas Morning News, the school district offered to drop the investigation into the reporter visit if Nosek would agree to drop her allegations of harassment against her principal and return to work at another school in the district. When Nosek's lawyer requested that Nosek be allowed to write a letter to her students explaining why she had left them in the middle of the school year, the school district withdrew their offer.
Ironically, this whole incident happened during National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Kathleen Nosek, who has been a special education teacher in the CFB district for a decade, was told by her principal, Amy Miller, that she would no longer be able to have another teacher help her administer a pronunciation test to her students, but would have to do so herself in spite of a doctor's note saying her deafness made it impossible. Nosek filed harassment allegations against her principal with the district and these allegations brought the reporter to the school to get more information.
It is currently unclear how the matter will be settled, especially since the district lawyers refuse to explain why they want to use the investigation of the reporter visiting Nosek at school to force her to settle her own harassment complaint, which is completely unrelated. The retaliatory nature of the whole situation is unsettling at best, especially since the school district originally stated the investigation was unrelated to Nosek's allegations of harassment.
I urge you to pass this on to anyone concerned with equal rights for the disabled, and for everyone to write respectful letters of protest to the school district.
To contact the school district, click:
Superintendent Bobby Burns