Teacher shot at Newport News elementary school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:she starting to act like a drama queen. she now wants 40MILLION DOLLARS

Good! I don’t know if she’ll get all 40, but make it count.

[Anonymous]

The bigger the settlement and the more pain it causes to the district, the more likely other districts will take notice and adjust policy. I hope the system awards her every penny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she starting to act like a drama queen. she now wants 40MILLION DOLLARS

yeah, how dare she expect some sort of compensation for getting SHOT BY A STUDENT AT WORK. The school system wants her to take workers comp and forget it ever happened. A BIG lawsuit with BIG numbers is the only thing that will get their attention.

But yeah, I wonder why teachers are quitting?

FOR 500 WEEKS that is almost like 10 years!!! she will be 35, before she going back to work. She wants 40,000,000 so she can stay home for life, and never work a day in her life again.

I hope she gets every penny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she starting to act like a drama queen. she now wants 40MILLION DOLLARS

yeah, how dare she expect some sort of compensation for getting SHOT BY A STUDENT AT WORK. The school system wants her to take workers comp and forget it ever happened. A BIG lawsuit with BIG numbers is the only thing that will get their attention.

But yeah, I wonder why teachers are quitting?

FOR 500 WEEKS that is almost like 10 years!!! she will be 35, before she going back to work. She wants 40,000,000 so she can stay home for life, and never work a day in her life again.

She got shot by a kid at work- she shouldn’t have to work again in her life. I’m not sure why this offends you so much - you must be management.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she starting to act like a drama queen. she now wants 40MILLION DOLLARS

yeah, how dare she expect some sort of compensation for getting SHOT BY A STUDENT AT WORK. The school system wants her to take workers comp and forget it ever happened. A BIG lawsuit with BIG numbers is the only thing that will get their attention.

But yeah, I wonder why teachers are quitting?

FOR 500 WEEKS that is almost like 10 years!!! she will be 35, before she going back to work. She wants 40,000,000 so she can stay home for life, and never work a day in her life again.

She was shot by a 6 year old at work after multiple warnings were brushed off. Money is the only thing that motivates institutions to change, so the number makes sense to me.

[Anonymous]

The father had been going back and forth with people on social media and said kid was not with mom the day of the shooting and there was a bigger backstory that people did not know. Wonder if this is what he meant? Her fertility issues are completely irrelevant to one teacher
being strangled and another shot. Given how this kid is doing, maybe that should be the focus for now, anyway?

Source: LSA thread and no, can't link, don't think it is allowed, go look yourself.

I had assumed that the kid did not have adults consistently engaged but that did not seem to be the case, he literally said on the stream that he was going to shoot someone (kid is tiny btw, so incongruous) then he looked to his father next to him and made direct eye contact. The kid seemed to get a lot of attention from parents and gma by being anti-social, it's all backwards.

This is not a kid who has no connection to others or is just in his head, he is keying off the 3 adults most important to him. Not sure why there was no bond at all with either K or 1st teacher, maybe race played a role or that they were authority figures or something? The chasing other kids with a belt, the touching of a little girl who fell, the strangling and shooting all suggest he has been physically abused, witnessed it or is exposed to violent and sexually explicit media. Abuse he may have suffered himself could also be fueling his rage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:she starting to act like a drama queen. she now wants 40MILLION DOLLARS

Tell the mom if you know her that many of us are thrilled she’s in serious trouble and then fix your possessives. She’s not she getting 40 million dollars (you can keep the all-caps).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she starting to act like a drama queen. she now wants 40MILLION DOLLARS

yeah, how dare she expect some sort of compensation for getting SHOT BY A STUDENT AT WORK. The school system wants her to take workers comp and forget it ever happened. A BIG lawsuit with BIG numbers is the only thing that will get their attention.

But yeah, I wonder why teachers are quitting?

FOR 500 WEEKS that is almost like 10 years!!! she will be 35, before she going back to work. She wants 40,000,000 so she can stay home for life, and never work a day in her life again.

She got shot by a kid at work- she shouldn’t have to work again in her life. I’m not sure why this offends you so much - you must be management.

I think its someone who knows the family. Just a guess, probably wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bigger the settlement and the more pain it causes to the district, the more likely other districts will take notice and adjust policy. I hope the system awards her every penny.

This. It's not just about her. I want this to terrify every single school district, and force them to change policy. The pendulum has swung WAAAY too far in leniency for students with behavior issues. It's time to fix this, and in our litigious society, this is the only tool we've got for change.

[Anonymous]

This. It's not just about her. I want this to terrify every single school district, and force them to change policy. The pendulum has swung WAAAY too far in leniency for students with behavior issues. It's time to fix this, and in our litigious society, this is the only tool we've got for change.

This. The teacher should be compensated for her medical bills and trauma (not to mention her education because I doubt she will be able to cont8nue in this field). But anlso, only by making school systems accountable for permitting violent behavior by students will we force their policies to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bigger the settlement and the more pain it causes to the district, the more likely other districts will take notice and adjust policy. I hope the system awards her every penny.

Same here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bigger the settlement and the more pain it causes to the district, the more likely other districts will take notice and adjust policy. I hope the system awards her every penny.

+1 educator here. I agree

[Anonymous]

For whatever reasons, there is no question that the administrators of this school did not implement an appropriate IEP for this child. Totally unacceptable, and they should not be able to continue in their current positions or in another position within the school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For whatever reasons, there is no question that the administrators of this school did not implement an appropriate IEP for this child. Totally unacceptable, and they should not be able to continue in their current positions or in another position within the school system.

There could be lots of reasons that the IEP didn’t work. But in the motion to dismiss her lawsuit, the defendants note that she, herself, advocated that the boy’s school day be extended because of his improvement.

I imagine this stage of the litigation will last for years. Negligence and even gross negligence don’t take cases out of the worker’s compensation system. In VA, pretty much the only two things that entitle an injured worker to sue are lack of insurance coverage and sexual assault, neither of which apply here. So the lower courts will likely feel bound to dismiss the suit. Either way though, there will be an appeal. To win, the courts will have to expand injured worker protections beyond the plain la gauge of the workers’ comp act, which is a tough sell in any state, especially a conservative one.


https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/district-dismiss-lawsuit-teacher-shot-6-year-covered/story?id=98921573

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For whatever reasons, there is no question that the administrators of this school did not implement an appropriate IEP for this child. Totally unacceptable, and they should not be able to continue in their current positions or in another position within the school system.

There could be lots of reasons that the IEP didn’t work. But in the motion to dismiss her lawsuit, the defendants note that she, herself, advocated that the boy’s school day be extended because of his improvement.

I imagine this stage of the litigation will last for years. Negligence and even gross negligence don’t take cases out of the worker’s compensation system. In VA, pretty much the only two things that entitle an injured worker to sue are lack of insurance coverage and sexual assault, neither of which apply here. So the lower courts will likely feel bound to dismiss the suit. Either way though, there will be an appeal. To win, the courts will have to expand injured worker protections beyond the plain la gauge of the workers’ comp act, which is a tough sell in any state, especially a conservative one.


https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/district-dismiss-lawsuit-teacher-shot-6-year-covered/story?id=98921573

PP here. Thank you for this info. Very helpful and interesting. Regarding the IEP, I have participated in the development of many IEPs over the years (kindergarten thru high school for kids with significant emotional/behavioral concerns and neurodevelopmental issues. Never did we decide a child should be in a regular classroom setting with a parent all day. However, since that is what this administration deemed appropriate, then this child should not have been in that classroom for one minute without a parent.