Does Section 44896 of the Education Code require a statement of reasons for the transfer of an administrator to a classroom teaching position?

Also, before the foregoing amendment was effective, Grant v. Adams, 69 Cal.App.3d 127, 137 Cal.Rptr. 834, was decided. That case also involved a challenge by an administrator to the legality of his reassignment to a classroom teaching position. The challenge was based in part on constitutional grounds which, on appeal, the court discounted. Otherwise, and of interest here, was the aggrieved administrator's reliance on section 13314.7 of the Education Code which was renumbered as section 44896 in 1977, in addition to being amended as already noted. This section, both before and after the amendment, requires, in connection with a reassignment of the kind which here occurred, that the district, if requested, give a statement of reasons for the transfer.