Here are letters to the editor that have been written by Bow teachers on the issue of Negotiations and Just Cause

An administrator may meet with an employee at any time to investigate an incident. The employee may have a Union representative present at any investigatory interview or any meeting where discipline or adverse evaluation may result. No employee will be disciplined without just cause.

No teacher shall be given an oral or written reprimand without just cause. All information forming the basis for disciplinary action will be made available to the teacher.

The Board reserves to itself jurisdiction and authority over all matters of policy and retains the right: a) to direct and manage activities of the school district; b) to direct the work of its employees; c) to hire, transfer, assign, non-renew, promote, retain employees in positions within the school district and, for just cause, to discipline, suspend, demote, discharge, withhold salary increases and/or increment wage increases.

No certified employee will be discharged or reprimanded except for just cause, as long as this provision does not violate state tenure law.

Excluding only the nonrenewal of a probationary teacher, employees shall not be warned, reprimanded, disciplined, adversely evaluated, non-renewed, dismissed, reduced in rank or compensation, or deprived of any professional advantage without just cause. Excluding only the nonrenewal of a probationary teacher, all information forming the basis of any adverse action shall be made available to the employee.

No teacher will be disciplined, reprimanded or warned in writing except for just cause, and any teacher who alleges to be aggrieved under this Section 12.5 shall have full access to the Grievance Procedures of this Agreement.

Any disciplinary action which may be taken against a professional employee will be based only upon information which is promptly placed in that employee's file. No professional employees shall be disciplined without just cause and shall be informed of the grounds for said discipline. If challenged, just cause shall constitute an arbitrable issue. The parties agree that non-renewals are not disciplinary in nature. Challenges to non-renewals shall be based upon RSA 189 et seg.

In the event that any teacher shall be discharged, non-renewed, suspended, disciplined, reprimanded, adversely evaluated, reduced in rank or compensation or deprived of any professional advantage, the individual shall be informed in writing by the administration. All information forming the basis for such action(s) will be made available to the teacher at the time such action is taken. The reasons shall support the actions taken.

Just Cause - No teacher shall be disciplined without just cause. The just cause standard, as written, shall not apply to termination or the nonrenewal of a probationary teacher as described in RSA 189:13 and 14.

A tenured teacher shall not be warned, disciplined, discharged, or non-renewed without just cause.

Under the terms of this Agreement, an employee shall not be disciplined except for just cause. Just cause for purposes of this Agreement shall mean that the evidence the disciplinary action Discipline shall include a written reprimand and/or suspension and/or dismissal. An evaluation shall not be considered or construed as a written reprimand and any such evaluation shall not be grievable under the provisions of this Master Agreement. Non-renewal of teachers, excluding nurses, under the appropriate RSA's shall not be subject to the Grievance and Arbitration provisions of this Agreement. Non-renewal of probationary nurses (see Article 6.8.B) shall not be subject to the Grievance and Arbitration provisions of this Agreement. Non-renewal of non-probationary nurses shall be subject to the Grievance and Arbitration provisions of this Agreement.

No teacher shall be given an oral or written reprimand or be suspended without just cause. All information forming the basis for disciplinary action shall be made available to the teacher upon his/her request.

Teachers shall not be disciplined without just cause, except that the just cause standard shall not apply to the nonrenewal of a probationary Employee.

No teacher will be disciplined (warned, reprimanded, suspended, or discharged) or, in the case of a continuing teacher, non-renewed except for just cause.