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[quote=Anonymous][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 [b]provide short-term disability policies that would cover the cost of a medical leave[/b]. [/quote]

Hmmm... maybe that could be part of a negotiated settlement if this teacher does sue. Sounds like the school response (unilaterally placing the teacher on unpaid leave) was a poor choice. [/quote]

I don't think it's just a poor choice. I think it is downright sickening. I'm just thinking about our charter, and if one of our beloved teachers was assaulted and then feared to come to school since absolutely nothing had been done to prevent this type of thing happening again, that parents would be up in arms if she was then essentially pushed out without pay. Clearly this school isn't in the same league but there should be some type of public uproar in support of this poor woman.

She's going to law school. I hope she learns to sue and then does it. But I also hope that "safe schools" will apply to not only children, but teachers and administrators.

Those of you on this thread simply saying welp, nobody gets paid leave in small businesses are missing the point. Yes, schools are special cases. And they're not businesses either (they are nonprofit). [/quote]

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