The availability of guns is absolutely the problem if the owners are dumb, negligent, and not trained how to use and store firearms. |
Kids all over the world play these games. This is the only country where they bring them to life. |
Except Canada. |
Canada’s rate of violent deaths by firearms is an eighth of that in the U.S. |
I want to know what happened in the months before the kid shot his teacher. I'm guessing we'll never know because the school will claim "privacy issues". Too bad that his right to privacy is super important but her right to safety is....non existent. |
I read the student smashed the teachers phone before the Christmas break. It was reported to admins who did nothing. Of course. My sister left teaching after being assaulted by a student. The admins told her that going forward with charges would reflect negatively on her in her file. She went forward and put in her notice. She’s never been happier since switching careers. |
Trust me, there were reports and reports and reports and nothing was done. This doesn’t come out of nowhere but when we as teachers report nothing happens because almost nothing can supersede a child’s right to public education until they are catastrophically violent and for smaller concerns in a lead up, admin won’t do anything but say “call home” and “document.” When she recovers she will have a massive civil suit against the district, and win, and never have to teach again. |
His backpack was searched before the shooting but the weapon was not found: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/12/richneck-elementary-shooting-school-board/
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Why people think she will be able to sue and that she can get massive amounts of money baffles me. This is workers’ comp and even if it wasn’t, there are damage caps. |
I don’t have access to the article, but how is it possible that a backpack was searched, unless it was only quickly peeked into. Did he have the gun somehow on his body? |
Oh, yeah, no. A teacher being shot on school grounds is not merely a workman's comp issue. She'll get money there, as well probably her pay and insurance covered for the rest of the school year along with her medical bills. She'll sue the administrators and the district itself for not protecting her when they were well aware of the problem. There isn't a jury out there that wouldn't be sympathetic to her. But, I hope she goes FAR beyond suing on her own behalf. I hope she can help teachers everywhere change the IDEA laws around protecting students at all cost, including at the expense of true safety of others. |
My kids never threatened to kill anyone. |
Perhaps it wasn’t really searched. Administration who did NOTHING about this boy is ABSOLUTELY responsible. And everytime they talk to the press they sound stupid. |
Regarding IDEA, please don’t bucket overtly violent kids with kids with disabilities. My child has a physical disability and benefits from IDEA. He has never hurt another child. |