BONITA K. REDD,
Grievant,
DOCKET NO. 2012-0419-McDED
Grievant, Bonita Redd, is employed by Respondent McDowell County Board of Education as a fourth grade teacher at Welch Elementary School. For certain purposes, the public schools of McDowell County are under the control of the West Virginia Department of Education. Thus, Respondent West Virginia Department of Education is an essential party to her grievance. Grievant initiated this grievance at Level I on October 15, 2011 when she mailed her completed grievance form to the Grievance Board. Grievant presented an extensive statement of grievance as follows:
The event causing this grievance to be filed was the hiring of Kathryn Tabor as the Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction at Mt. View. This is an Assistant Principal position, as the law only recognizes school administrators as Principals or Assistant Principals. Therefore, I should have been transferred into this position pursuant to the transfer policy. Additionally, I was demoted to a teaching position, which violated Policy 5300 and 5310.
Even if the law had not been required to transfer me into another Assistant Principal position, I should have received a special education MI/LD position at Mt. View, since I am more senior than Theda Muth, pursuant to transfer policy. Furthermore, all Assistant Principals were not terminated and transferred. Since Flourisha McGuire and Inga Barker did not have the required three years of administrative experience, as