” Barker has hired a lawyer and is fighting them”
How in the world could she possibly fight this?????
Probably a union attorney.
She could argue that what she was doing was no different than what President Obama does.
She was “depressed, mentally ill” - proof= she made up an illiness so she wouldn’t have to go to school. Therefore she is “disabled” and draws disability pay... see that was easy.
If I were a deadbeat like her, I’d have done the same thing - see exactly just how much I could get away with. When finally confronted with a hierarchy no longer willing to bend over backwards and issuing a letter of termination, I would then contact the most sleazy lawyer I could - I’d have had plenty of opportunities to pick a ‘good’ one from daytime TV.
This ‘lawyer’ would have the resources to get me a doctor, any doctor, willing to sell his credentials from Jamaica or San Rafael, or Mexico - Guatamala et al. I’d be diagnosed with an obscure disease/malfunction that could not be proven conclusively, but falls within the ADA guidelines.
I’d clean the f@ck up in court.
She can always invoke the Homework Defense:
"I had too much homework, your honor".
“How in the world could she possibly fight this?????”
Probably several ways, one that comes to mind is...the school was negligent in not verifying her condition from the get go...however I don’t know how they could have done so with medical privacy and all...but she can claim that is not her fault.
No doubt at the end of it all the school system will wind up paying her a settlement.
That was my first question, and how can it not just be tossed out?