A federal judge rules against a group of Tuscaloosa County teachers who said they were denied due process when their hours were increased, without extra pay, during the COVID19 pandemic.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday against a group of Tuscaloosa County teachers who said they were denied due process when their hours were increased, without extra pay, during the COVID pandemic.
The judge said that, while teachers’ workload increased and changed when the school system switched to virtual learning in 2020, they still had opportunities to work through employment concerns with the district. The judge also dismissed sex discrimination claims by two teachers who said extra COVID duties impacted their ability to care for their families.
“Plaintiffs have not alleged how they were affected in ways that male teachers were not,” Judge Annemarie Axon wrote.“I am an educated, trained and experienced teacher, not a computer scientist or web designer,” one of the plaintiffs, Rebecca Kennedy, wrote in her complaint. “...
“No credible argument can be made that assigning teachers’ duties for instructing students, providing teaching resources, requiring use of specific teaching methods, or determining appropriate compensation – which are the fundamental bases of the plaintiffs’ claims – are somehow outside a school superintendent’s official duties,” the school district’s attorneys wrote in a response.
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