Jury awards whistle-blower student $450,000

by E Wayne Ross on August 28, 2009

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Jury awards whistle-blower student $450,000

When she was thrown out of nursing school just 13 weeks before graduating, Sara Castle was humiliated.

Still, she knew she and her classmates weren’t getting the clinical training they needed because an instructor repeatedly dismissed students early — a practice Castle exposed, and the teacher was fired.

But Castle, too, was a casualty as Appalachian Technical College expelled her for, she asserts, blowing the whistle.