Speech Arts Teacher Denying Admission to Part of the School Population

In a California middle school, a speech arts teacher at school that had the improv team. About three times a year, the team put on a performance for the whole school. On one of the performances, she didn’t allow a subset of the 8th grade population. It was the UC Davis team which had all the special ed students as well as mainstream students in it. I am guessing she discriminated on the basis of disabled kids. But she probably thought it was a legal loophole by not allowing the whole team from seeing the performance. Even if she didn’t discriminate on the basis of disability, not allowing part of the school population from seeing a school performance sounds illegal because they should be open to ALL the students since her production is funded by taxpayers-she was a school employee and using school property to execute the rehearsals and performances. If she had her own production outside of school funded by her own money, then she can deny admission to whoever she wants, but it’s wrong doing that on a production funded by taxpayers. Legally, she didn’t even own any of the productions that she created at school because she was an employee of the school district and since it was created within the scope of her employment, the school district owns the rights to the production aka work-for-hire. Anyways, am I correct on how it’s illegal to not allow part of the school population to see her production? All students attending a public school should have equal access to all services.

Submitted October 19, 2019 at 09:27PM by Angel1099 https://ift.tt/2P5cgjY