Legal Question in Employment Law in Michigan
was a student teacher at S...School District, and my master teacher was terrible. She really mistreated me and told me to my face that I was poor, ignorant and tacky. She used to tell me my lesson plans were no good instead of trying to help me, she would tell the students not to respect me because I was only a student teacher, and took me for a roller coaster ride to hell all semester. ( I even suspect she went through my purse..I can't prove it) She even went to the principle and told him that I wasn't capable to be a good teacher and was mean to the students. He took her side and had me to come down to the office and explain myself. She couldn't prove anything, so he let it go and kept a keen eye on me; watching me while I stood outside the door to let the children in and watching me teach too. I was a nervous wreck! (I don't know why she would do me this way?) Anyway, we got into an argument at the end and she lied and told me to never come to her class and the principle took her side again and had me banned out of the school and I had to finish the semester in another school. Now five years later, I go to apply for a position as a teacher, and he is now in this new School District, as a Superintendent. He sat through the interview and afterwards, he called me and told me that he remembered the �incident� from five years ago and that he put it in my new work file in P School District. (Mind you this was five years ago and it was student teacher not a real position) Does he have a legal right to do this?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Not only does he have the right, but the obligation.