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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now it’s getting worse. It’s come out the teacher hasn’t been paid since February even though her contract goes until August. The school system tried in February to strong arm her into taking workman’s comp (which I assume would negate her argument re her lawsuit) so she refused and then they just stopped paying her.

This week, they fired her via email.

This entire case is just a $hitstorm. That poor woman. She’s had no income since February. None.

https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/newport-news/newport-news-1st-grade-teacher-shot-by-student-was-fired-attorney-says/[/quote]

If you don’t work, you don’t get paid. That’s how employment works. [b]If she believes she is entitled to disability benefits, she needs to apply. It’s not automatic. You don’t just send someone a disability slip. There is a process that starts with affirmative action by the disabled employee.[/b] And, Most policies require six month waiting period, which means if she has coverage, and she applies and she qualifies, she will be eligible next month for benefits.

And, no matter how much her attorneys and she wants it to be otherwise, this falls squarely under workers’ comp. If she wants to try to prove otherwise, she’s not going to see paychecks for a few more years. In VA, you don’t get paid until you win after all appeals are exhausted.

Her attorneys are grandstanding and wanting to try to make new law - and she is bearing the financial burden. But she has options. [/quote]

According to her attorney, she sent the doctor's letter about her disability to the school district and never received a response to start the process:

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Breit said she should have at least received disability.

“Newport News has a disability program that I know some teachers have received when they have been disabled,” Breit said, “get paid while they are out. She has not received a single response to the disability letter from her doctor.”[/i][/quote]

This school district is a hot mess. It's as if they have no legal counsel. [/quote]

+1 I'll say it again -- I'll be very surprised if that child had a formal IEP with a signed by all parties change regarding parent/no parent in the classroom every day. [/quote]

Same. I'm a teacher and I've never heard of a parent being required to attend school with their child. [/quote]

Exactly. And one of the many reasons for that is that apples do not fall far from trees.[/quote]

Well, no. It’s because if a child requires a 1:1 aide that aide has to be special education certified and parents are not. This is not a legal accommodation, it was some nonsense agreement between admin and parent. [/quote]

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