Saturday, August 2, 2003
Teacher fired for promotion of hemp to receive $70,000
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT - A former teacher will receive $70,000 from the Shelby County School District to settle a lawsuit she filed claiming she was wrongfully fired for promoting the legalization of hemp.
The settlement with Donna Cockrel, formerly of Frankfort, was reached Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Frankfort where jury selection was to begin in the suit filed in 1997.
Cockrel came under fire in 1996 when she invited actor Woody Harrelson, an industrial-hemp advocate, to talk to her fifth-graders at the Simpsonville Elementary School about his cause.
In July of 1997, the school board fired Cockrel, listing 17 reasons, including insubordination. She is now teaching in Detroit.
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