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Court holds that anxiety from possibly getting fired is an ADA disability.
Let me tell you about a teacher in South Dakota. In 2010, she received a letter communicating concerns about her performance. Subsequent evaluations of the teacher’s classes noted several deficiencies. So, the school placed the teacher on a performance improvement plan.
It was right around this time that the teacher met with a physician’s assistant, who diagnosed the teacher with “anxiety and depression, likely stemming from her concerns about possibly getting fired.”
So, at the teacher’s request, the physician’s assistant wrote a letter to the school seeking a laundry list of accommodations, including: