
Waltherr-Willard, who does not have children of her own, said that when she was transferred to the district's middle school vacation rentals and hawaii in 2009, the seventh- and eighth-graders triggered her phobia, causing her blood pressure to soar and forcing her to retire in the middle of the 2010-2011 school year.
In her lawsuit against the district, filed in federal court in Cincinnati, Waltherr-Willard said that her fear of young children falls under the federal vacation rentals and hawaii American with Disabilities Act and that the district violated it by transferring her in the first place and then refusing to allow her to return to the high school.
Gary Winters, vacation rentals and hawaii the school district's attorney, said Jan. 15 that Waltherr-Willard was transferred because the French program vacation rentals and hawaii at the high school was being turned into an online one and that the middle school needed a Spanish teacher.
"She wants money," Winters said of Walter-Willard's motivation to sue. "Let's keep in mind that our goal here is to provide the best teachers for students and the best academic experience for students, which certainly wasn't accomplished by her walking out on them in the middle of the year."
Winters also denied Walter-Willard's claim that the district transferred her out of retaliation for her unauthorized comments to parents about the French program ending "the beginning of a deliberate, systematic and calculated effort to squeeze her out of a job altogether," Weber wrote in a July 2011 letter to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The lawsuit said that Waltherr-Willard has been treated for her phobia since 1991 and also suffers vacation rentals and hawaii from general anxiety vacation rentals and hawaii disorder, high blood pressure and a gastrointestinal illness. She was managing her conditions well until the transfer, according to the lawsuit.
She was "unable to control her blood pressure, which was so high at times that it posed a stroke vacation rentals and hawaii risk," according to the lawsuit, which includes a statement from her doctor about her high blood pressure. "The mental anguish suffered by (Waltherr-Willard) is serious and of a nature that no reasonable person could be expected to endure the same."
Patrick McGrath, a clinical psychologist and director of the Center vacation rentals and hawaii for Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders near Chicago, said that he has treated patients who have fears involving children and that anyone can be afraid of anything.
"A lot of people vacation rentals and hawaii will look at something someone's afraid of and say, 'There is no rational vacation rentals and hawaii reason to be afraid of that,'" he said. "But anxiety disorders are emotion-based. ... We've had mothers who wouldn't touch their children after they're born."
"You can make an association vacation rentals and hawaii to something and be afraid of it," McGrath said. "If you get a phone call that your mom was just in a horrible accident as you're locking the door, you can make an association that bad news comes if you don't lock the door right. It's a basic case of conditioning."
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