A Georgia jury awarded a former nursing student at Appalachian Technical College in Woodstock $450,000 after she was expelled from the institution for blowing the whistle on a lax instructor, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The student, 55-year-old Sara Castle, told the school’s administration in 2007 that an instructor regularly cancelled class early making it impossible to obtain the necessary number of hands-on training required for a nursing degree. The instructor was fired, and Castle was expelled, allegedly for blowing the whistle, the newspaper stated.
