Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Education / Kotz / Law and Order Nashville Makes National News Again--For Pervert School Administrators
Posted by Pete Kotz on Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:01 AM
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Nashville dodged a bullet last week when voters rejected English-Only, which would have made us the only major city to have such a rule, and would have undoubtedly made us look like backwater mopes. 
But we're in the national spotlight again this week. Both The New York Times and the Washington Post cover the Supreme Court case of Vicky Crawford, the former Nashville schools payroll chief who alleges she was fired after complaining about sexual harassment. As you may recall, Crawford was fired after being interviewed for an investigation of employee relations director Gene Hughes, who'd been accused of being a creep. Crawford, in the Post's genteel recounting, claimed that Hughes "put his crotch against her office window and once pulled her head toward his groin."
The district later cleared Hughes of being a pervert, but Crawford was later fired for supposedly sucking on the job. She claimed the real reason was retaliation.
In a fairly shameless move, the district argued that it couldn't have violated Crawford's civil rights, since she never placed a formal complaint. (She merely answered investigators' questions.) The Supreme Court ruled that argument bullshit, and perhaps kind of slimy. But the district can still attempt to prove Crawford sucked at her work when the case is returned to a lower court.
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