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Subd. 2. All teachers in the public schools in cities of the first class during the first three years of consecutive employment shall be deemed to be in a probationary period of employment during which period any annual contract with any teacher may, or may not, be renewed as the school board shall see fit. . . .
Subd. 3. . . . Any probationary teacher shall be deemed to have been re-employed for the ensuing school year, unless the school board in charge of such school shall give such teacher notice in writing before April 1 of the termination of such employment. In event of such notice the employment shall terminate at the close of the school sessions of the current school year.
No direct attack is made hereplaintiff's overall performance as a teacher, including her relationship with students and staff as well as her teaching ability, was determined by defendant, Mr. Charles S. Marks, the Principal of Ericsson Elementary School, and is contained in periodic written evaluation reports. All of these reports are highly praiseworthy of the plaintiff's performance with the exception of only one report which is dated November 24, 1972 and attached hereto as Exhibit A. This report is wholly false and was prepared maliciously and without reasonable cause in that Mr. Marks did not conduct a classroom evaluation of the plaintiff on that date or on November 27, 1972 as has been subsequently alleged by Mr. Marks.
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On February 16, 1973, the plaintiff was informed during a conference with defendant, Mr. Charles S.