East Porter school board member sues to lift no trespass order

Natalie Bowersock, member of the East Board of Directors Porter County School Corporation, continues the school company, its board of directors and the Superintendent Aaron Case to raise a prescription without intrusion against it for the schools of the canton of Washington which prevent it from attending its three school activities for children.

The verified complaint concerns a prohibition order, a preliminary injunction and a declaratory repair for the situation which, according to Bowersock, causes distress to her children and professional stress for her husband, who is an employee of the school. Thursday evening, she was in tears in a telephone interview for missing her daughter’s softball match.

“My daughter was very successful tonight, and she had to go home and tell her about it,” she said.

“I was told that the only way they would plan to revoke the intrusion warning would be if it abandoned the seat (of the board of directors),” said Bowersock lawyer Daniel Zlatic, adding her lawyers “wanting her to do what all other parents in the school district can do, which must take and deposit her children and attend her children and children.

The integdent in the case is extended, involving a tort complaint filed by Bowersock after having alleged that his son was so seriously injured in school by another student in the spring that he needed surgery. She said they had no intention of continuing, but the tort complaint was a legal maneuver necessary to preserve this option because they sailed to appease the $ 7,000 in medical invoices.

The Court’s file quotes a complaint by Bowersock to the Equal Opportunities Committee, an official harassment complaint by an employee of the Company against Bowersock, and an incident at a private non-school event as other factors of the non-intrusion order. The case was initially assigned to the judge of the Superior Court to carry, Jeffrey Clymer, but he challenged himself according to Bowersock.

A prescription was signed Thursday, according to the County clerk to wear, Jessica Bailey, giving the parties seven days to agree on a special judge. If they cannot agree, or who they choose declines, the case will go to the court administrator to be assigned.

The case and several members of the council refused to comment on the issue.

Case said he “couldn’t talk about a threatened or waiting litigation.” The way in which the legal costs incurred by the district will be paid for “depends on how it takes place,” said Case. He said insurance is likely funding, although the operating fund is also a possible source.

Bowersock began his first mandate on the board in January. She worked at school as a special education teacher for five years, and her husband is a longtime teacher and basketball coach there. She maintains that Case tries to withdraw it from the board of directors due to the EEOC complaint which it filed on February 28 for what it describes as sexist processing on the board of directors, and because it poses more questions and makes more requests for information than other members of the board of directors.

“We receive a weekly email and I may ask three questions and they ask it,” she said about her colleagues members of the board of directors. “They said that I stressed the central office with requests for documents, but I think I have a duty to be informed when we spend thousands of dollars. I think they would like to have the answers before voting.

“I think they punish me and hope I will resign,” she said. “I am literally continuing so that I can have access to return to the school’s property, and that’s it.”

Bowersock said she had filed the EEOC complaint for two reasons. First of all, she was denied her request to prepare for documents relevant to the members of the board of directors before each meeting of the board of directors which was brought to her by her husband when she was dealing with a medical condition and a subsequent surgery. She said she knew that the packages were delivered to the mailbox of the Bob Martin board of directors every week.

“The packages were definitively delivered to Bob. They said that at a meeting of the board of directors,” said Bowersock. She also included her observation in her complaint that the requests she made so that the articles were placed on the agenda of the meeting of the Board of Directors were ignored. “I would ask that they be placed on the agenda and they would not be, but would do it for male members,” recalls Bowersock.

A legal file indicates that on July 23, she received a letter to stop and abstain from the July 16 of the case on behalf of the EPCSC, saying that an employee of the unidentified school had submitted an official complaint against her alleging a hostile work environment by “repeated harassment”. The file indicates that Bowersock had to stop and refrain from any communication with any EPCSC employee concerning the subject of the complaint, the delicual complaint or any related question, and limited it to school goods without first having received the written authorization from the Chairman of the Board of Directors Richard McSparin or the case.

The deposit also indicates that the only example of “repeated harassment” considered the purchase and the public reference of a “wine product” bearing a name which would be associated with a person who is the subject of the tort complaint.

Bowersock said that she and her husband had been invited to a party at the home of the director of the Washington Middle High School on May 31 and that she took a good bottle of wine as a “water under the bridge” gift concerning the tort complaint, but also joked: “It is not the wrong gift”, referring to a bag of several cheaper bottles that she also brought.

One of them was marked with the same name as the boy who would have injured his son. She believes that it is the root of the claim of “repeated harassment”, but does not believe that the director was intimidated by her. “He laughed and we had a great time and left the party really happy to go,” she recalls.

She said she congratulated graduates on stage together a few days later and served together for a committee to select a new baseball coach. “It was months ago. If they had an investigation into a bottle of wine, why didn’t they finish it? ”

It is not clear if the order without intrusion will prevent Bowersock from attending the future meetings of the School Board. In the past, the board of directors has run its public meeting place among the three campuses of the schools of the canton of Washington, schools in the canton of Morgan and Kouts schools. “I don’t know if they will avoid Washington because of this,” said Bowersock.

Shelley Jones is a journalist independent of the post-distribute.