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Dismissal:
(n.) The act of ordering or allowing someone to leave.
Ex, The sudden dismissal of the Physical Education teacher sparked
chaos to the other specials teachers within the elementary school.
2. Property Interest:
The extent of a persons or entitys rights in property. Property
Interest deals with the percentage of ownership, time period of
ownership, right of survivorship, and rights to transfer or encumber
property.
Ex.
3. Liberty Interest:
A right that the Due Processes Clauses of the state and federal
constitutions confer on an individual.
Ex. The former middle school principals termination did not affect a
liberty interest because it was not stigmatized, false, or published in a
way where he could not obtain other employment.
4. Notice:
Requirement that parties be aware of legal processes that may be
affecting their rights, obligations, or duties.
Ex. An eighth grade reading teacher argued that because he did not
receive the notice, he was unable to request a hearing. The system
found that reasonable efforts for the teacher to receive the notice
were not made.
5. Hearing:
(n.) A legal proceeding in which evidence is taken and arguments
are given as the basis for a decision to be issued, either on some
preliminary matter or on the merits of the case.
Ex. The high school dean was informed that a type of hearing was
required before the employer makes the initial termination decision.
6. Adequate Notice of Hearing:
Due process guarantees that an individual be granted opportunity
to be heard at a meaningful time.
Ex. The school music teacher argued that there was not an adequate
notice of hearing. She did not have enough time between the notice of
the hearing and the scheduled hearing.
7. Waiver of Hearing:
A teacher can waive their right of hearing by refusing to attend
hearing, failing to request a hearing, or walking out of a hearing.
 Ex. The substitute teacher realized that her waiver of hearing was not
the best option considering that the hearing is an essential element of
due process. She should not have refused to attend.
8. Impartial Hearing:
1. An administrative hearing that is similar to a trial, but much less
formal.
Ex. Some school districts suggest that an impartial hearing is a more
formal process to resolve disputes between parents of students and
the school district.
9. Evidence:
1. (n.) the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or
proposition is true or valid.
2. (v.) be or show evidence of.
Ex. Parent disatisfaction was not considered valid evidence for the
proper dismissal of a school custodian based on a statement her
daughter claimed he had made to her.
10. Incompetency:
1. (n.) lack of ability, legal, qualifications, or fitness to discharge the required
duty.
2. (n.) Law. the condition of lacking power to act with legal effectiveness.
Ex. When the substitute was found playing Disney movies the entire
year instead of teaching the lessons the teachers had provided, he was
dismissed for incompetency and inappropriate use of class time.
11. Immorality:
1. (n.) immoral quality, character, or conduct; wickedness; evilness.
2. (n.) sexual misconduct.
3. (n.) an immoral act.
4. unacceptable conduct that affects a teachers fitness to teach.
Ex. The school counselors pornographic Facebook post represented a
promiscuous immorality and was viewed as unacceptable by the
districts school board.
12. Insubordination:
1. (n.) the willful disregard of or refusal to obey school regulations and official
orders..
Ex. The coach suspended his star football player for his constant
disrespectful notions and insubordination towards the other coaches.
13. Unprofessional Conduct:
1. A term for immoral or dishonest and dishonourable conflict that violates a
professions code of ethics.
 Ex. The teacher may accepted pay for tutoring a student in a subject in
which the teacher was responsible for giving classroom instruction to
that student and was therefore charged with unprofessional conduct.
14. Unfit to Teach:
1. Medical or psychological behavior exhibited by school personnel that is
questionable; is as of incompetency and immorality or an unacceptable
conduct that affects a teachers fitness.
` Ex. In a court case, a teacher was labeled as unfit to teach because of
his immoral conduct to four of his high school students.
15. Reduction-in-force:
1. A separation from employment due to lack of funds, lack of work, redesign,
or elimination of position(s) or reorganization, with no likelihood or
expectation that the employee will be recalled because the position itself is
eliminated.
Ex. Unfortunately, the principals school was facing a reduction-in-force
due to declining enrollment and school district consolidation.