article_snippet: Teachers in a western Pennsylvania elementary school tried to ban a disabled girl from using a faculty bathroom by filing a grievance with The Steel Valley School Board.
article_snippet: In the grievance filed February 13, Teachers union said allowing ten-year-old Kaitlin Montgomery to use the restroom on the lower level of Park Elementary School in Munhall violated the teachers' contract.
article_snippet: The teachers union at Park Elementary School in Munhall, Pennsylvania, filed a grievance about Kaitlin (left), pictured with Kaitlin mother Tracy Montgomery (right), because Kaitlin was using the faculty restroom on the school's lower level which violated The teachers union at Park Elementary School in Munhall, Pennsylvania contracts .
article_snippet: The grievance's solution was that Kaitlin would have had to go outside and up a flight of stairs to use the student bathroom .
article_snippet: The Steel Valley Education Association said the teachers' contract requires the district to provide 'lavatory facilities exclusively for employees', according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. '
article_snippet: The bathrooms that have been designated as faculty bathrooms shall be exclusively used by the faculty,' a grievance about Kaitlin Montgomery (left) said.
article_snippet: The student's mother, Tracy Montgomery, told the board on Thursday that before Kaitlin got permission to have Kaitlin daughter use the faculty restroom, school officials said Kaitlin would have to go outside and up a flight of stairs to use a student bathroom, which is what other students have to do.
article_snippet: Steel Valley Education Association President Shawn McCallister said the grievance wasn't filed to prevent the student from using the restroom, the Post-Gazette reported, but to create 'a better outcome for all involved'.
article_snippet: No other alternatives met the girl's needs, District Superintendent Ed Wehrer said, and noted that the student is the only non-faculty member using the restroom.
article_snippet: The school board said no alternatives to the faculty restroom met Kaitlin's needs, so Kaitlin would be allowed into the bathroom, being the only non-faculty member using the facilities .
highlights_snippet: Teachers union filed grievance claiming Kaitlin Montgomery use of bathroom violated the faculty's contract .
  