Attorneys for the Alleghany County Board of Education have filed their response to Barbara G. Halsey's lawsuit against the board, according to documents on file at the Alleghany County Courthouse.
Halsey, a former fourth-grade teacher at Piney Creek Elementary School, is suing the board over its June 2000 decision not to grant her career status, effectively dismissing her as a teacher from the Alleghany school system.
The response reiterates the attorneys' denial of Halsey's claim that the dismissal was a political retaliation. Halsey's husband James Halsey ran for a seat on the board and defeated then-chairman Bobby Irwin in the May 2000 Democratic primary.
"Defendants emphatically deny the plaintiff's claim that the decision not to grant her career status had anything to do with her relationship with her husband or her husband's candidacy for the board of education."
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