Staff Writer
As a result of two recent public hearings involving 13 hours of testimony from staff, administrators, students and friends, the Caribou Board of Education voted unanimously to dismiss Kirsten Albair from her high school English teaching position, after approximately two hours of deliberation.
The hearings and consequently the decision to dismiss Albair, stemmed from allegations brought to the administrations’ attention concerning an incident involving inappropriate and out of context ethnic remarks within a classroom.
The Caribou School Board of Education entered into an executive session for deliberation at 11:15 p.m., after Monday evening’s four-hour public hearing ended with closing arguments made by Albair’s defense attorney Alan Harding and Attorney Melissa Hewey, of Drummond and Woodsum in Portland, who represented the Caribou High School administration.
Attorney Bryan Dench of the Auburn based law firm Skelton, Tainter and Abbott, facilitated the hearings and also served as legal counsel for the Caribou school directors.
A formal, written decision to be drafted by the legal counsel and approved by the six education board members, will be made public at a later date.
