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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 13, 2013 23:52:49 GMT
It's really amazing how far these discrimination claims can go! www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/13/ohio-teacher-files-discrimination-suit-over-fear-young-children/?test=latestnews QUOTE: Ohio teacher cites fear of children in discrimination suit
Jan. 13, 2013 An Ohio high school teacher who claims to have a phobia of young children is suing a school district for discrimination. Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, of Greenhills, is suing the Mariemont school district, where she worked for 35 years, saying it discriminated against her when it reassigned her in 2010 from its high school to its junior high and then pressured her to resign, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. According to the paper, the suit is a discrimination claim based on her age and disability -- a rare phobia called pedophobia, an extreme fear or anxiety around young children. Waltherr-Willard’s suit claims she has suffered from the condition since the 1990s. Waltherr-Willard, who teaches Spanish and French, experiences stress, anxiety, chest pains, vomiting, nightmares and higher than healthy blood pressure when she’s around young children, according to documents filed by medical professionals, the Enquirer reported. Last week, a federal judge dismissed three of the six claims in her lawsuit, claims which alleged the school district violated an implied contract to keep her from young students. In court documents, Mariemont officials say they did not expect Waltherr-Willard to resign when she did. They said she was replaced at the high school by teachers who also were in their 50s.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2013 7:23:40 GMT
Even without that condition she must surely have a case of some sort. A teacher trained to work with senior students is shunted off to work with young kids - that makes no sense. In England she could probably bring a case for constructive dismissal.
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Post by Hunny on Jan 14, 2013 12:53:21 GMT
That's kind of weird that she became a teacher when she's afraid of children! I mean, getting shifted around is something that happens, and a teacher can be asked to substitute on occasion, so I don't see how she can show she had a reasonable expectation when she entered this profession of never being exposed to younger kids. Plus, really, the difference between high school and junior high? -> 14-17 versus 12-14. How much difference are we talking about? I think she's just grasping at straws here hoping she can win some money. She should have kept her job. I don't see how her claim is valid.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2013 14:47:42 GMT
So the youngest child in junior high is 12? Then yes, it does sound odd!
We were told that her condition concerned "young children" and that is not a 12 year old!
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 19, 2013 12:11:07 GMT
So the youngest child in junior high is 12? Then yes, it does sound odd! We were told that her condition concerned "young children" and that is not a 12 year old! yeah. junior high here is grades 7, 8, and 9. there might be an occasional 12 year old in the seventh grade, but most are going to be 13. the broad should lose. had they put her in kindergarten, or the first or second grade, she would have a case. they didn't
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Post by zoey on Jan 19, 2013 22:50:48 GMT
A phobia of young children yet she chooses to become a teacher?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2013 7:21:11 GMT
A phobia of young children yet she chooses to become a teacher? I can understand that. I get worried by small children (under 8) , especially when they are in groups but I like teenagers. Here, someone qualified to teach in secondary schoools (11-18) is not qualified to teach younger children, and vice versa.
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