l>aKf2 A KINGS .MOl'NTAIN MIKKOR Thursday. January 17,1974
"School Board Action
Drastic^ - Stoll
To the editor:
I am a teacher in the Kings
Mountain School District who
has, by certified mail on
January 11, been notified of
my dismissal on the grounds
of performing inadequately in
the Kings Mountain schools.
The letter states that the vote
of the school board was
unanimous.
This drastic action against
me is shocking even though
earlier I had received a letter
from the superintendent of
schools stating that he was
contemplating recommending
this action.
As a result of this action half
of the financial support of my
family of seven has been taken
away. It is somewhat easier to
explain to my son in high
school why 1 cannot offer him
financial support in college
than it is to explain to my five
year old daughter why she will
not be able to stay in the First
Baptist Kindergarten for the
rest of the year. My family’s
emotions and future are
greatly affected by this action
of the school board.
Never in my almost 16 years
of teaching have my motives
been anything but to attempt
to discipline and to instruct
tile children under my care.
Nine years I have taught in
Kings Mountain.
I apologize to the parents of
four of my this year’s students
‘THinnoft
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PHONE 739-7496
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for any action on my part
which enraged them and
caused them to come to a
hearing to testify against me.
One father who has never
spoken to me in person at the
hearing made a statement to
the fact that I emharrased his
son by standing him in the hall
for unruly conduct and caused
this child to miss instruction
he needed to do his math. His
wife who had had only one
conference supported him in
this matter.
A grandmother complained
that I used undue discipline on
her grandchild because of a
bruise found on the „l,ild’s
ankle. X-ray report was
negative as to damage.
A father to whom 1 had only
spoken once on the telephone
came to influence the school
board against me. His com
plaint was directed not only at
me, but involved the teacher
with whom 1 was team
teaching.
Another father complained
that he assumed that I would
not answer his son’s questions
because his son was asking
him more questions at home
about bis math.
A mother of a child in my
1972-73 reading class stated
that she came to the hearing
at the suggestion of the
superintendent. She had only a
very few conferences with me
concerning what she con
sidered a reading problem
with her child and none at all
with the principal of North
School and me together.
The testimony of a
minister’s wife who so em
phatically inferred that her
teaching was superior to mine
is puzzling me also. She has
only a high school education
and no college training. She
was used in the classroom
while the action was being
finalized against me. How
could she justly pass
judgment when she has never
but once observed any of my
teaching’’
I would like to thank three
teachers and 12 parents of
children who have studied
under my instruction for
taking to witness on my behalf
at the hearings on January 3-4.
Their support of me has
taught me that people do care
to get involved when undue
persecution is directed at an
individual. I also would like to
thank those who wrote letters
to the school board on my
behalf. I would like to state
that I do not understand why
their good faith in me did not
influence the school board to
allow me to continue in the
profession for which I have
beenwell-trainedand of which
I am proud.
I would like to ask that all
Christian people who read this
letter to pray for me that
justice will prevail soon and I
will be reinstated into the
teaching profession.
DAPHNE L. STOLL
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