Petitioner seeks to terminate respondent's services.
The appeal must be sustained in part. Respondent is a tenured high school science teacher in the Tuxedo district. This conduct was undertaken after receiving a directive from Elementary School Principal, Jan Hammond, not to repeat the flame igniting activity which occurred on or about December 4, 1991. The panel then scheduled another hearing to determine the appropriate penalty. That prior determination indicated that respondent had been found guilty of one charge of insubordination, conduct unbecoming a teacher and incompetency by failing to adhere to a directive that he not take high school Physics students on a small aircraft to conduct a zero gravity experiment.