Takeaway: When a white employee failed to show any connection between his race and his failure to receive either of two jobs, his reverse discrimination claims could not proceed to trial.
A white school district employee who claimed that he was rejected for two athletic administration positions at public high schools because of reverse discrimination could not go forward with his claims, a federal appeals court ruled. There was no evidence that would allow a jury to find that the school district, in offering the positions to a Black applicant, discriminated against the employee because he is white, the court said.
The employee began working for the school district as a social studies teacher in 1991, and in 2007 became the athletic director at one of the district's high schools. In 2017, he applied to serve as corporation director of athletics, a newly created, districtwide position.
The district superintendent interviewed four applicants and ultimately recommended someone else for the position. The superintendent explained that the chosen applicant interviewed very well, inspiring confidence in his ability to repair the school district's strained relationship with the state's high school athletic association. The employee interviewed poorly, seeming to boast of firing 24 coaches during his tenure at the high school, the superintendent said.
Furthermore, the superintendent said, he questioned the employee's ability to restore the school district's relationship with the...
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