Court Opinion

ID: 9640680
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:11:55.389575+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:22.988554
License: Public Domain

GONZALEZ, Justice,
concurring.
Ms. Dodd, a long-time school nurse with the Wink-Loving Independent School District, with no teaching duties or teaching certificate, filed suit against the District because her employment contract was not renewed and the District did not give her any reasons for its decision. Whether this is good or bad policy is not the issue. The real issue is whether the legislature has given school nurses the same procedural rights regarding notice of reasons for non-renewal of employment contracts that the legislature has given teachers. I agree with the majority of this Court and with Chief Justice Carroll and Justices Jones and Kidd of the Austin Court of Appeals that the legislature did not, intentionally or unintentionally, give school nurses those rights. It would be sound public policy for the legislature to grant school nurses the rights included in the Term Contract Nonrenewal Act — however, this is pot our decision to make. We should not re-write statutes under the guise of interpreting them, as the dissent would have us do. I thus join in the opinion and concur in the judgment of the Court.