holding any cause includes non-renewal of teacher-coaches’ teaching contracts for a poor win-loss record
How later courts described this case
- holding any cause includes non-renewal of teacher-coaches’ teaching contracts for a poor win-loss record
- Board nonrenewal of teaching contracts for reasons related to coaching effectiveness was not arbitrary and capricious
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Steele Hays, Justice, dissenting. I cannot agree that someone hired as a football coach and teacher can be terminated on the basis of the team’s win-loss record, even though hired primarily as a coach. Certainly the board can non-renew the contract of a coach for any reason it chooses, but if his status continues beyond probation then it is my view that under the Teacher Fair Dismissal Act he can be discharged only for cause, and that is not to be determined by so variable a standard as the team’s ability to win.
Dudley, J., joins in this dissent.