Appellants sought reversal of a decision by the District board to uphold a superintendent's decision that Gregory be removed from the wrestling team and denied a senior sport's letter for wrestling. Although Greg was talented both academically and athletically, he had trouble controlling his temper. It was a temper outburst that gave rise to the incidents that resulted in Greg's removal from the varsity wrestling team and resulted in this appeal.

Greg had sustained a shoulder injury and was told by his coach that he would not be participating in a meet. When he returned to the weight room, he lost his temper and threw two 15 pound weights across the room, hitting a student's knee and another student's foot. The superintendent, princiapl and athletic director decided to give Greg a second chance. Greg did receive a 3-day suspension for this incident.

When Greg returned to the team on January 13th through February 2, his coach recorded approximately 11 separate incidents in which Greg violated his behavior contract, a condition to his returning to the team. Greg was expelled from the team on February 6, 1995. Appellants alleg that their son had been treated unfairly by the District.

The parents' vigorous prosecution of this appeal and their insistence that their son was the victim of harassment by the coach and other school administrators, convinces us that this hearing would not have been pursued to this extent except for Appellants' concern over their son's "reputation." ). As to the liberty interest at stake in this case, we have to find that Gregory's reputation has not suffered the type of damage that warrants reversal of the District's action. There must be a very real negative impact on employment or admission to higher education as the result of the District's action to warrant such reversal. See Moore v. Hyche, 761 F. Supp. 112 (N.D. Ala. 1991). See also In re Brian Campbell and Craig McClure, 9 D.O.E. App. Dec. 69, 76 (1991)

That the decision of the Janesville Consolidated School District Board of Directors made on April 3, 1995, was affirmed.