Opinion ID: 1174706
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Heading: discharge from position as principal

Text: We need not consider whether or not appellant received proper notice of a hearing in connection with the discharge from the position as principal, or whether or not sufficient evidence was presented for such discharge at the hearing, inasmuch as appellant's position as principal was not a tenured position and appellee had no obligation to renew appellant's contract as a principal for the 1982-83 school year. We settled this issue in Seyfang v. Board of Trustees of Washakie County School District No. 1, Wyo., 563 P.2d 1376 (1977). It would serve little purpose to here repeat the rationale there set forth. We only note that we carefully analyzed the language of the Wyoming Teacher Employment Law, § 21-7-101 et seq., W.S. 1977, and the legislative intent thereof to conclude that tenure afforded for the classroom teacher position or its equivalent was not likewise afforded for administrative or supervisory positions. We said at page 1381: Even the applicability provision of the act refers to the function of teaching, not supervising. This separation of functions is emphasized by the certification provisions, § 21.1-14(c), supra, [now § 21-2-304(a)(iii), W.S. 1977] which clearly distinguish the qualifications for teaching and administrating, even though one must be a teacher to be an administrator. Appellant attempts to distinguish the Seyfang case from this case in that Mr. Seyfang was a superintendent and appellant was a principal. The rationale and analysis scrivened by Justice Rose in Seyfang is equally applicable to both positions. Both positions are included in that which is commonly referred to as management. The Wyoming Teacher Employment Law does not grant tenure to the position of principal, and appellee was not prevented by the act from refusing to renew appellant's contract as principal.