A white female Chicago Public Schools teacher and high school girls basketball coach should not have been fired by CPS after she used martial arts grappling techniques to restrain a 17-year-old male student who was fighting with other young males inside the gym while her team was still playing, a state appeals panel has ruled.
On June 27, a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court overturned the decision by the Chicago Board of Education to dismiss Kimberly Bulow from her teaching position at Infinity Math, Science & Technology High School on Chicago’s West Side.
In the ruling, the justices said CPS’ decision to fire Bulow over the incident amounted to a decision to punish the teacher for the behavior of an unruly and violent young male, who posed a threat to Bulow’s basketball players and everyone else in the gym that day.
The case centered around Bulow’s actions to intervene in a fight involving a male student, identified in court documents only as “J.B.,” J.B.’s friends and a group of other young male rivals.
According to court documents, Bulow served as a CPS teacher from 2012 to 2022, including working as a tenured special education and English teacher at Infinity from 2014-2020. Bulow also served as a coach for the school’s girls’ soccer, track and basketball teams.
Bulow is also an amateur mixed martial arts fight trained in jiu-jitsu and wrestling, according to the court documents.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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