Analyzes South Dakota Supreme Court decision reversing school board's dismissal for incompetence of fifth-grade teacher for answering boys' questions about homosexual sex in explicit language. Court held that teacher's singular incident involving indiscreet answers was not sufficient to support charge of incompetence nor was the board policy…

Discusses Eighth Circuit Court's upholding of an Oklahoma nontenured second-grade teacher's claim of religious discrimination and violation of First Amendment right of expression when school board declined to renew her contract on recommendation of a principal concerned with parent objections to New Age thinking in a letter sent home attached to a…