Kinner

FACTS

In July 2008, the District transferred Kinner, then a 12-year employee, to a position at Parkside Preschool and Kindergarten (Parkside). Kinner complained to Jamie Brown (then the District’s head of classified employee discipline) that the Parkside job was an office manager position, yet the District was classifying and paying her as a senior secretary. In March 2010, Kinner requested in writing that the District change her job classification to office manager. Brown denied Kinner’s request. On November 28, 2011, Rachelle Dale, the District’s coordinator of special education, issued Kinner a letter of reprimand. Inter alia, the letter stated the following. In October 2011, a District employee had received a phone call from Maria Huerta, the Spanish-speaking parent of a Parkside student. Huerta reported she was having trouble communicating with Parkside because, when she phoned Parkside, she was usually treated rudely and often was not connected to a Spanish translator. Huerta also complained that when she went into the Parkside office, Kinner was rude to her and often would not respond when Huerta asked for assistance. On November 9, 2011, District employee Ambar Matzuy had…