Phobic teacher claims discrimination
An Ohio teacher is suing her former school, claiming she was discriminated against for having a phobia of young children. Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, says she was fine teaching high schoolers, but when she was forced to teach 7th- and 8th-graders, she suffered “mental anguish” of a sort that “no reasonable person could be expected to endure.”
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