A settlement has been reached between Southeast Cornerstone School Division and Wade Oberg, the former principal of the Weyburn Comprehensive School, after the school division lost two court challenges.
They first lost a decision in Court of Queen’s Bench, which ordered Oberg to be reinstated as the principal of the Comp School, and the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals dismissed their appeal and ordered the division to pay Oberg’s court costs.
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Oberg had no comment about the settlement reached with Cornerstone, only confirming that he has now retired as principal of WCS, and has taken a position as a consultant with Southeast Cornerstone.
No details of the settlement or what it is costing taxpayers was provided.
In February, when he won the court case against Cornerstone, Oberg said in a statement to the Review, “The Court of Appeal agreed with the Queen’s Bench Court that the process followed in my case was unfair and the decision to demote me was unreasonable. These events have had a major impact on me and my family, both professionally and personally. I am grateful the mistakes that were made have been corrected.”
Oberg was removed as principal of the high school in October of 2017 following an incident involving his daughter and the senior girls volleyball team. He had had a dispute with the team’s head coach as he tried to substitute his daughter into the rotation during a tournament, and after an argument with the coach, he and his daughter left, and he was subsequently removed from his position.
He appealed the decision at a show-cause hearing before the board of trustees in December 2017, but they upheld his demotion.
He worked for 25 years for the Cornerstone School Division as a teacher and as an administrator, and had no stain on his record up to that point.
In taking the school division to court over their decision, Oberg argued that the action taken against him was disproportionate to his actions, which he admitted to. The justice agreed with him, saying in part in the Appeal Court decision, written by Justice Leurer, “the board’s decision to amend Mr. Oberg’s employment contract to remove his principal duties was unreasonable.”
SE Cornerstone reaches settlement with former Weyburn Comp principal - Weyburn Review
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