some courses in administration during the 1990s. Ms. Harper has taught students from the middle school level to the post-secondary school level.
Fred Casher, a graduate of Jim Hill High School in Jackson, Mississippi, earned a Bachelor of Arts from Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, and went on to obtain two master's degrees, one in History and Education and the other in Supervision and Administration from that same institution. After employment as a teacher, later assistant principal, Casher eventually was named principal at Call-away in 1996. He remained at Call-away as principal for some six years before being transferred as a result of plaintiffs accusations.
Plaintiff Jacqueline Harper ("Harper") says she endured ongoing sexual harassment resulting from Casher's conduct, beginning after his hiring in December of 1996 as principal atCall-away and continuing until Harper submitted her complaint *599 to the District in February of 2001. In her deposition, plaintiff contends that during this period Casher repeatedly propositioned her for sex, uttered racy statements to her, ran his hand up her thigh towards her private area, licked his tongue at her suggestively, felt her behind and even "snatched [her] breast out of [her] dress and stuck it in his mouth." So allegedly distraught at Casher's conduct, plaintiff says that at times upon his approach she would run and hide in the bathroom from him. The encounters between plaintiff and Casher were always private, says plaintiff, so no one else ever observed these occurrences. According to plaintiff, even though she confidentially related her ongoing ordeal to several of her