An Ohio school teacher is suing her school district, saying that it discriminated against her on the basis of her disability: a phobia of young children.

Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, of Greenhills, Ohio, had worked as a high school French and Spanish teacher but alleges the school district reassigned her to teach junior high as a way of expediting her exit.

The 61-year-old she suffers from pedophobia, a fear of young children, and she says the Mariemont school district knew of her condition and still assigned her to teach younger aged students.

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