Legal Question in Employment Law in Kansas

Re: Sueing a supervisor for lying?

To bring a successful dafamation of character suit, one must, among other things, show a damage to their reputation. Unless the evaluation is made known to other, there probably is not damage to your reputation. But you have been damaged. If this is causing you to dwell, you have been negativly affected. It just may be that your suffering is not legally cognizeable.

The pain you suffer now, may later be damage to your vocation or personaly reputation. I advise you to try to prevent future damage. You should obtain a sworn (notarized) statement of the facts of the incident from each of the two teachers that you say observed the incident. If they will provide these with you, you should ask that a copy of them be added to your file.

If the secracy of your employment file is breached, you will have the affidavits of the two teachers to show the falsity of the principals description of the incident, should you suffer any negative employment consequences from the false statement being shown to others.

I suspect that the other two teachers will balk at providing the affidavits if they know you will be asking to have them put into your file. You may opt to not tell them wht you will do with them.

Few things are as infuriating as being falsely accused of a bad act. I hope that your pain does not lead to damage to your career or personal reputation. You can not undo what the principal has doen, but you can try to prevent further damage.

Good Luck