The teacher plaintiff from her first 2 months of employment at St. Mary’s, felt that she had been power harassed by 2 administrators. When the school failed to acknowledge that any harassment or bullying was happening, the teacher reported her case to the Tokyo Metropolitain Government. It appears that the school decided to take the teacher’s job away as punishment for her being public about harassment at the school.
The teacher sued the school for wrongful dismissal after being let go for no documented reason after working there for 2 successful (in terms of student and parent feedback) years. She is interested in inviting the school’s community to have eyes on this case, in case this precedent will ever be useful to its people in the future.
The international school community tends not to have a clear guide on how to proceed when teachers / ex-pats have serious issues at the schools. Schools seem to have all the power. What path can individuals take to dispute this? As well, the teacher wants to express that it is shameful that the school should treat any of its teachers callously and ignore the will of parents and students.
