February 13, 2013

• When I was in school, during the age of the dinosaurs, I had some teachers who obviously didn't like kids.  I wondered then, and wonder now, why they went into teaching.  Of course back then the options for women were mostly teaching, nursing or secretarial.  But still.  Apparently it's still a problem, according to this from World Magazine.

  Considering the details divulged in her lawsuit against Mariemont City Schools, perhaps Maria Waltherr-Willard should have chosen a different profession. The 61-year-old former high-school teacher is suing the school district, which serves Cincinnati’s eastern suburbs, for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against her because she had a rare phobia: fear of school-aged children. According to the lawsuit, the district was trying to force her out of a job by transferring her from her high-school position to teach 7th- and 8th-graders—an age group that she says caused her blood pressure to spike and anxiety to soar.

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