MacKenzie v. State

Citations

• 32 Wash. 657
• 73 P. 889
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 471

Syllabus

<p>SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS-RE-ELECTION OF TEACHERS-ACCEPTANCE -DISCHARGE.</p> <p>Where a teacher is re-elected for the ensuing year, and thereafter expresses her gratification to the secretary of the board that she is to have her same -work, and during vacation consults with the principal, at his request, in regard to her proposed work, acceptance on her part is sufficiently shown, and the dispensing with her services subsequently upon abolishing the line of work she had conducted, without giving her an opportunity to accept or refuse other work in the school, amounts to a breach of the contract.</p> <p>SAME.</p> <p>The acceptance of an offer to teach conveyed by a re-election of a teacher is established by her conference during vacation with the newly elected principal concerning the character of her work for the ensuing year, and a resolution of the board annulling her employment on the ground that it would not be for the best interests of the school amounts to a breach of contract.</p> <p>NORMAL SCHOOLS-TEACHERS-CERTIFICATES OF QUALIFICATION-NECESSITY.</p> <p>The certification of qualification of teachers of “higher and special institutions” not being required under that portion of the “Code of Public Instruction” (Laws 1897, title 4, p. 427) devoted to such institutions, but it- being the evident intent of the law that such certification shall apply only to teachers under the common-school system, one would not be incapable of entering into a contract to teach in one of the normal schools of the state by reason of not holding a teacher’s certificate.</p>