'It is unfortunate for the students of our district that your employment as a staff member has been less than satisfactory and has required this action. The text of that letter, omitting the first paragraph which is quoted above, follows: The defendant board members are selected by the residents of the community, and the community will get the school system that the members it elects provide. Insistence of a school board in this grey area upon complete unquestioning cooperation and compliance could have a suffocating, repressive effect upon the quality of the school system, yet only in the most extreme cases, in my opinion, would courts be justified in finding an abuse of board discretion. Beyond competence and contractual duties there is a grey area in which the board should have discretion to determine that a technically competent teacher or counselor may nevertheless not be suitable for the school system. However, it is my view that during a probationary period a school board is not limited in its determination that a counselor has proven his worth- before achieving tenure- to the school system by a showing of mere competence as counselor. I am not clear as to what 'self-direction'- as a reason for termination of employment- means in the context of this case, although I think that the record here does support a finding that plaintiff did not cooperate.
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