Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia

I recently resigned from a teaching position due to health reasons and had FMLA. The school district has accepted my resignation. I went to the district office the other day to get copies of the contents of my file. Much to my dismay, I saw a copy of an email in my file I had never seen before. It was from my principal to the supt. citing that I was making too many comments during meetings (it did say the comments were supportive and positive but "distracting" and "slowed the flow" of said meetings). There were others who made comments during meetings and even had full out philosophical discussions that took 25-30 minutes during these same meetings. I wanted to know about what I can do besides write a rebuttal, at this point, and does freedom of speech figure into this at all?


Asked on 3/20/10, 6:02 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

The rebuttal would probably be about all that you would be allowed in my estimate (and, of course, there's no telling how long that would necessarily be permitted to remain in your file).

And, no, I don't really see any First Amendment issues as to freedom of speech here in what you've described.

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Answered on 3/25/10, 8:16 pm


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