Choir teacher fired after Nola field trip will get her job back

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IIRC from discussion at the time, Garfield is like the John Curtis/Evangel of high school choirs.

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After a nine-month ordeal during which she lost her job as Garfield High’s choir teacher, students protested her termination and she fought her dismissal in court, Carol Burton plans to be back at Garfield at 7 a.m. Monday.

Burton, fired in August because she violated the district’s field-trip rules, learned Tuesday that a King County judge has ordered Seattle Public Schools to reinstate her.

Burton, 51, has admitted she made mistakes on the New Orleans excursion in March 2015 but didn’t think they should cost her her job. On Tuesday evening, she said she had thought her chances of reinstatement were thin.

Superintendent Larry Nyland fired Burton after a district investigation showed she and other chaperones drank alcohol and failed to keep male and female students out of each other’s hotel rooms. Burton admitted she consumed 2½ alcoholic drinks during the five-day trip, and she questioned the district’s policy on hotel-room visits.

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