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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holy crap this is horrible.

Seriously? Charter schools are not required to protect their staff from assault on campus or provide paid leave? WTF people! "should have hired an employment lawyer" screw that the city and board of ed needs to step up and protect our teachers. How about Ms Bower herself?[/quote]

Of course they are required to take measures to protect their staff from assault. And it absolutely appears they failed to do that although given the description I don't' know how the school was supposed to prevent this sort of attack.

The school is not required to provide paid medical leave if they have fewer than 50 employees (same for every employer in the city). They are only required to provide unpaid leave.

It's an awful case, but why is this any different than an employee of a restaurant being assaulted? Or any other workplace incident.

If you think schools are extra-special, then one solution would be to require charters to provide short-term disability policies that would cover the cost of a medical leave. [/quote]

Good point. I do think schools are extra-special. This thread seems to have turned into a pro-charter/anti-charter debate but DCPS isn't immune to either attacks on teachers nor to deciding that paid leave won't be provided when such attacks occur. While that seems wrong to me, it doesn't seem like it is the result of whether a school is chartered or not.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/loose-lips/blog/13132314/hard-luck-five-years-after-a-horrible-attack-teacher-francis-boldens-life-is-still-broken[/quote]

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