Slander per se.

Practice point: Informing the parents of preschoolers that their children's teacher has been terminated is reasonably susceptible to a defamatory meaning and is slanderous per se because it directly implies that she had done something so egregious that it made her unfit to practice her profession even one more day.

Case: Lipman v. Ionescu, NY Slip Op 02745 (1st Dept. 2008)