Would willful defiance of a court order terminate a teachers tenure or revoke his teaching certificate?
Therefore, it is the conclusion of this office that (1) a probationary or a permanent teacher may be sued by a six-director school district as defined in Section 160.011(12), RSMo 1969, for damages which the school district can prove resulted from the teacher’s unjustified refusal to perform the agreed upon services provided for in the teacher’s contract; (2) pursuant to Sections 168-. 114 through 168.120, a permanent teacher’s indefinite contract could be terminated by a school district if a teacher unjustifiably refuses to perform the services called for by the teacher’s employment contract with the school district; and (3) a teacher’s teaching certificate could be revoked by the authority which issued the certificate upon satisfactory proof that the teacher has unjustifiably failed to perform the services called for by his employment agreement and that, therefore, the teacher has neglected his duty and/or has annulled his contract with the local school board without the consent of t
