Opinion ID: 2771330
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Penrose Elementary School

Text: Daniels’s troubles continued at Penrose. On September 6, 2011, the principal at Penrose, Katherine Pendino, called Daniels into her office and, while reviewing Daniels’s performance records, asked her, “Do you know what you’re doing?” Id. at 129. On or about September 12, 2011, when referring to Daniels, Pendino shouted in the hallway within the hearing of students, staff, and faculty: “[S]he’s no good[.] I want her out of here.” Id. Similarly, two days later, Pendino stated to Daniels in front of her students, “[Y]ou don’t know anything.” Id. at 130. Pendino also attempted to write Daniels up for not indicating her time of arrival on the sign-in sheet, even though Pendino had told her that she did not need to do so. Pendino likewise wrote Daniels up for not submitting lesson plans that Daniels actually had submitted weeks earlier. On or about October 25, 2011, Pendino commented to the school’s behavior therapist that Daniels was “no good. I want to get rid of her.” Id. During the same month, Pendino instructed Daniels’s students to write down anything derogatory or negative that Daniels had said. When parents complained about this direction to their children, Daniels received another write up. Then, on or about November 14, 2011, Pendino told Daniels, “[D]o not return after Christmas break; either retire or resign.” Id. As had Marianno and Christy, Pendino testified that she did not know of Daniels’s PHRC complaints when she took actions that Daniels regarded as adverse. On December 13, 2011, Daniels supplemented her February 2011 PHRC complaint with a letter listing grievances against Pendino. Daniels v. Sch. Dist. of 10 Phila., 982 F. Supp. 2d 462, 475 (E.D. Pa. 2013).2