Postscript

Adele Jones, the Delaware algebra teacher who was fired in 1993 for giving too many students poor grades, is back in the classroom.

The Indian River, Del., school board fired Jones because she gave about half of the students in her Algebra II class D's and F's. The board said she was incompetent and insubordinate. Jones said those students weren't working hard enough.

Jones's firing brought her instant celebrity, as newspapers and television and radio stations across the country picked up the story. Paramount Pictures pondered a movie deal. Letters poured in from teachers throughout the nation. Jones appealed...