Well, I see it differently from the rest of the posts.

I think it was a judgmental error that you made initially in trying to go ahead with
student teaching. You should have notified (ahead of time) the person who was
in charge of student teachers and arranged to re-schedule you for a later time.

Part of teaching is judgmental capacity because you are working with younger
people who need help.

In your case, you needed therapy for some time before you began your effort to student
teach, and you really must be on your toes in student teaching.

In my view, your best effort would be to talk to a lawyer, get his opinion and then
do what he suggests. He may oversee your second attempt at student teaching
which would probably guarantee your success if there were prejudicial judgments
made by the department head in Student Teaching. Usually, I think the effort is
to get graduates out there in the field and know that they are equipped to do a
job well. (Even at that, new teachers learn so much their first year of teaching.)

I feel for you and know it must be extremely painful. You'll feel much better after
you talk to an attorney. And, in fact, it would have been a good idea had you
spoken to an attorney at the time you were scheduled to appear for practice teaching.
I know: it's always 20/20 in hindsight. But your cognition may easily have been
affected by the depression. and you had needed therapy for sometime before being
scheduled for supervised teaching.

Did you have at any time a thought that you needed therapy? Or that the situation
could be risky considering your physical shape? There you would need a psychiatrist's
opinion.

We're talking about a possible lifetime career here, aren't we?

You're going to not only have to "talk the talk" the second go around, you're going to
have to "walk the walk", and you know what I mean.

Take heart; I think you'll make a great teacher. You're obviously intelligent and
probably have excellent records except for his one mistake.