Teacher Receives $1.4 Million in Case Over Grade Changing
The teacher, Paula Payne, said she would not change the low grades given to her students even after being instructed to do so by school officials. In Louisiana, any school official at any level is not allowed to force a teacher to change a grade.
Seventy percent of her students received a grade of either D or F in Payne's course. School officials and parents saw a problem with this. Many of the students that received such poor grades were otherwise well known of being great students. Her class was known as the "House of Payne" by students because of her strict grading procedures.
The charges that brought Payne this amount of money for mental anguish and other damages were brought against the principal and superintendent of the school system that Payne was previously employed by. The jury decided that Payne had been harassed and her rights had been violated.
The lawsuit filed by Payne has been in the works for the last couple of years. The people accused by Payne claim that they never tried to force Payne to change the grades. The school system says that the only problem that they had with Payne was that she would not meet with school officials without the presence of a Louisiana state education official. This is what caused a five day suspension from her classroom previous to her resignation. Payne had been a teacher for 16 years before she resigned from her position.
Payne has no desire to return to teaching in any public school in the state of Louisiana. She is currently teaching at Dixon Correctional Center in Louisiana to inmate students.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentThere are very many poor teachers who are out to make kids fail to prove that they can be tuff. However, there are also those teachers that try their hardest to motivate and compliment kids so that they feel good about themselves, but because they(the students)do not see the importance of an education and take it seriously they don't even try. Teachers must reflect on how they have taught a lesson and see what they can do to help kids understand more clearly if this is done to no avail then the teacher has done the best they could have.
There is something amiss when 70% received low grades, especially when the population included many great students. This lady should not be teaching, and doesn't deserve the world's highest merit pay via the courts for her poor efforts.
If a student fails a class its usally their fault. if 70% fail thats the teacher's fault for being a shitty teacher. End of story.
Go Payne!