Marvin E. COBB
v.
ROCKY MOUNT BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Eastern Carolina Legal Services, Inc. by Wesley Abney, Wilson, for petitioner-appellee.

Poyner & Spruill by Ernie K. Murray and Steven A. Rowe, Rocky Mount, for respondent-appellant.

William W. Finlator, Jr., Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, amicus curiae.

PER CURIAM.

On the authority of Reed v. Abrahamson, 331 N.C. 249, 415 S.E.2d 549 (1992) *555 (filed simultaneously herewith), the decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.

AFFIRMED.

MEYER, J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.