A schoolteacher was successful at teaching kindergarten for five years. She requested to teach first grade and

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A schoolteacher was successful at teaching kindergarten for five years. She requested to teach first grade and was then reassigned to a classroom that had no exterior windows. She told the school principal that she suffered from seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression. She made numerous requests to be moved to a classroom with natural light, but the school refused to do so. She also presented the school district with a letter from her psychologist stating that her depression was being exacerbated by the lack of natural light. Another teacher who had been assigned to a classroom with exterior windows had offered to switch rooms. There was also one vacant room with exterior windows, but this room was being reserved for the possible addition of another class section. The woman’s health deteriorated. She suffered from significant inability to concentrate, organize her thoughts, retrieve words, make decisions, and focus on the needs of her students. She also experienced racing thoughts, panic attacks, uncontrollable crying, inability to eat, and thoughts of suicide. She went on medical leave. Eventually, she quit and went to work elsewhere. Did this employer fail to reasonably accommodate this employee?

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