Limit Student Testimony in Termination Hearings for Teachers

Students who are disruptive, violent and have been denied specialized services by CPS, not be used in termination hearings for teachers. Students used in Termination Hearings cannot be expelled by CPS.

In the cases where students have verbally or physically assaulted the teacher, testimony from these students should not be admitted as evidence against the teacher.

If this policy is not accepted immediately by CPS, we will charge that CPS is using students who are victims of a systems that refuses to provide them with services they are entitled to under the law but is willing to use these same children who are emotionally unstable against teachers for the expressed purpose of removing them from employment from CPS.

In several cases students were used and interviewed by principals without parental permission and statements were taken from them when no other adult was present to remove teachers from their employment as tenured or nontenured teachers. We are requesting a review of any cases where teachers have been removed from their jobs due to similar circumstances. We are also requesting that any student used in a teacher termination hearing be immediately returned to their status as a CPS student and that both parties, students and teachers are and given compensation enough to “make them whole”.