AMHERST – The new year at Amherst Regional Middle School will see both the return of a controversial guidance counselor and a legal challenge of the decision that reversed her firing.
Delinda Dykes was dismissed Nov. 13, 2023, on the grounds that she had misgendered students and made inappropriate comments about gender and sexual orientation.
Her firing was overturned last month in an arbitration process. The arbitrator, Eileen A. Cenci, found that the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District violated state law in finding that Dykes had engaged in conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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