What do You Think?
By BY Michal Lumsden Times Herald-Record December 15, 2007
Liberty — Fired Liberty school librarian Angela Page filed a lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court against the Liberty School District, alleging disability discrimination and violation of the district's contract with the teachers union. Page is seeking $2 million in damages, plus legal fees.
The suit comes a day after Liberty's school board voted 6-1, with 2 abstentions, to fire Page because she has been too ill to work in the school since June 2004.
Page developed multiple chemical sensitivity from the toxic gases released by mold in the middle school library, where she worked from 1991 to 2004.
She won the workers' compensation claim she brought against the school district, but that decision is being appealed.
The complaint filed by Page's lawyer, Michael Sussman, says that the Liberty Faculty Association's contract with the district ensures faculty members will remain employed while on workers' compensation.
The suit also claims that Page's requests to be assigned different duties and a clean work environment "were dishonored in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act."
A state arbitrator last month agreed with former Liberty Superintendent Lawrence Clarke's assessment that creating a new position for Page or allowing her to carry out library duties virtually from her home "would place an undue hardship on the district."
I don't know where to go with this one. While I feel sympathy for this woman's plight, it smacks of greediness by my way of thinking.
mlumsden@th-record.com
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