Smith v. Board of Education of Yonkers City School District

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Smith v. Board of Education of Yonkers City School District

231 A.D.2d 528, 647 N.Y.S.2d 99, 1996 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8847

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided September 9, 1996·Published·Cited by 4 cases

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Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the respondent Superintendent of the Yonkers Public Schools dated June 12, 1995, which, after a hearing, found the petitioner guilty of the charges against him.

Adjudged that the determination is confirmed and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, with costs.

The record supports the respondents’ determination that the petitioner’s performance as a custodial employee in one of the respondents’ schools was poor and that he failed to improve his work despite oral and written warnings. The record also sufficiently demonstrated the petitioner’s excessive absences. Moreover, under the circumstances of this case, the penalty of dismissal is not shocking to one’s sense of fairness (see, Matter of Pell v Board of Educ., 34 NY2d 222, 233).

[529]*529We have considered the petitioner’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Rosenblatt, J. P., Santucci, Joy and Hart, JJ., concur.

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Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the respondent Superintendent of the Yonkers Public Schools dated June 12, 1995, which, after a hearing, found the petitioner guilty of the charges against him.

Adjudged that the determination is confirmed and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, with costs.

The record supports the respondents’ determination that the petitioner’s performance as a custodial employee in one of the respondents’ schools was poor and that he failed to improve his work despite oral and written warnings. The record also sufficiently demonstrated the petitioner’s excessive absences. Moreover, under the circumstances of this case, the penalty of dismissal is not shocking to one’s sense of fairness (see, Matter of Pell v Board of Educ., 34 NY2d 222, 233).

[529]*529We have considered the petitioner’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Rosenblatt, J. P., Santucci, Joy and Hart, JJ., concur.

Smith v. Board of Education of Yonkers City School District, 231 A.D.2d 528, 647 N.Y.S.2d 99, 1996 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8847 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1996).

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