Court Opinion

ID: 9560124
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:43:18.867095+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:10.361055
License: Public Domain

Given, Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the decision of the Court for the reason that the record clearly discloses that the county superintendent, in refusing to nominate petitioner, was not arbitrary or capricious. Had the record clearly and certainly established arbitrary or capricious action on the part of the county superintendent in refusing to nominate petitioner after a clear showing that she had satisfactorily completed her three years probationary teaching, I believe the petition herein should have been treated as praying for a writ requiring the county superintendent to nominate petitioner and a writ moulded accordingly. That, it seems to me, would be the clear legal duty of the county superintendent. I can not believe that the intention of the Legislature was to require three years probationary teaching as a prerequisite to a continuing contract, with all that means to a beginning teacher, and permit the denying of the continuing contract by the county superintendent because of some personal, political, religious or other immaterial or illegal reason.