Grosjean

This is an appeal from a judgment in the defendants’ favor after an order sustaining their demurrer to the sufficiency' of the plaintiff’s application for a writ of mandate.

The plaintiff, prior to May 12, 1917, had been a teacher in the public schools of San Francisco for many years, holding diplomas and certificates which entitled her to be a teacher therein and to be retained in such position unless dismissed therefrom for “insubordination, immoral or unprofessional conduct,” after the presentation of charges and a hearing thereon as provided by law. It appears affirmatively from the plaintiff’s petition that such charges were presented and a hearing had thereon before the said board of education, which thereupon made an order for the plaintiff’s dismissal. It is the regularity and legality of this action on the part of said ¡board which the plaintiff attacked by her petition and which she assails upon this appeal.

It sufficiently appears upon thefaee of the plaintiff’s petition that the alleged dereliction of duty which furnished the basis of the charges which were preferred against her was that of' insubordination, consisting first in violations of the rules of the board of…