By Daniel Libon The Patch Stoughton High School teacher Jaime Regan will have a letter of reprimand and all references to it removed from her file. STOUGHTON, MA — An arbitrator has determined that the Stoughton Public Schools were wrong to take disciplinary measures against one of three teacher who were reprimanded following a report of anti-Semitism at the high school. Stoughton High School teacher Jaime Regan will have a letter of reprimand and all references to it removed from her file, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced Friday. The controversy began in November 2016 when a now-former student posted a swastika on the school’s “Spirit Wall.” When he was asked to remove it, he replied, “”well, just burn it like they did to the Jews.” The student received a six-day suspension for his actions but shortly afterwards, his mother accused Regan and two other teachers of bulling her son. In regards to Regan, the mother claimed that the teacher asked to have the student removed from Regan’s Holocaust class where a survivor of the genocide was scheduled to speak. While Regan’s request to have the student removed was granted, she never spoke to the student about the issue, never asked him to leave the class, and never discussed him or the incident with her class, according to the Brandeis Center. “The punishment against Ms. Regan arose from charges brought by the mother of a student that flaunted a swastika and engaged in hate speech. In a ham-handed attempt to appease the mother of the offending student, the school district disciplined Ms. Regan for violating a district rule that simply does not exist, and in violation of the First Amendment. Moreover, the allegations against Ms. Regan were unsupported by the record. The punishment was based on ‘factual conclusions’ made by a defense attorney hired by the school district to investigate the charges brought by the mother. Those conclusions were never supported by the record of the investigation itself. Fortunately, the arbitrator looked closely at the facts and the law and recognized that the punishment cannot stand,” Brandeis Center Senior Civil Rights Legal Fellow Jennie Gross said in a release. The accusation led to the placement of a letter of reprimand in Regan’s file and a determination from attorney Regina Ryan that Regan should be punished for allegedly pulling a student aside to ask about another student’s discipline and unnecessary communications with colleagues. The conduct was “unprofessional,” “unbecoming a teacher,” and contrary to “providing an educational climate that is conducive to student engagement and learning.” The arbitrator, Mary Jeanne Tafano, disagreed with that assessment, ruling that the school district never identified any rule or standard that Regan violated, apart from the general statement of commitment to an educational climate conducive to student engagement and learning. “Teachers’ inquiring about the well-being of other students, as well as similar lunch room discussions, were common. . . . [T]he record does not support that Ms. Regan revealed any confidential information about the student to either another student or to a faculty member,” a press release from the Brandeis Center reads. The arbitration against Hilary Moll is ongoing. She was suspended without pay after rescinding a college letter of recommendation to the student and telling the college that she withdrew the letter over the hate speech incident. In the case of Stella Martin, the arbitrator ruled that the school district was to discipline her for discussing the incident and the student.