Plaintiffs rely on the Supreme Court’s decision denying absolute immunity to school board members in Wood v. Strickland, 420 U.S. 308, 320, 95 S.Ct. 992, 43 L.Ed.2d 214 (1975). The Court held that affording absolute immunity to school board members was unwarranted “since it would not sufficiently increase the ability of school officials to exercise their discretion in a forthright manner to warrant the absence of a remedy” for constitutional violations. Wood, 420 U.S. at 320, 95 S.Ct. 992. While Wood dealt with a school board’s discipline of a student, at least one other circuit has extended this holding to deny absolute immunity to school boards’ decisions concerning a faculty member’s employment. See Stewart v. Baldwin County Board of Education, 908 F.2d 1499, 1507-08 (11th Cir.1990) (<HOLDING>). Additionally, the record indicates that the
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