Abusive Coach, Good Teacher Still Leads to Termination in Alabama Case

An Alabama appeals court has agreed with a school board that a coach’s practice of having his players administer punishment to fellow players who broke his rules was, in fact, appropriate grounds to terminate the coach.   In so ruling, the court overturned the ruling of an arbitrator, who had reversed the Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County’s decision to terminate.   Marion Dunn was a science teacher and the head varsity basketball coach at B.C. Rain High School in Mobil