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[quote=magrathean][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I have personally been abused by students and have been told by admin that I must have done something to provoke them and also that what happened probably wasn't as bad as I thought it was and just needed to sit down with the child to work out why they felt angry enough to throw something at me or call me derogatory names. 
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I concur a million fold! Have had this happen to me on several occasions. Student threw a desk at me, assistant principal's first question wasn't "are you ok?" but "what did you do to provoke the student?"  Another time a student "cross checked" me out of his way; principal wanted to do nothing, gave me the "kids will be kids" excuse. I managed to get a one day in class suspension for that incident when my question back to the principle was "so you are saying you cannot provide me with a safe work environment?" The principle (correctly) read that for the legal threat it was.

So by MCPS standards, neither a student throwing a desk at me, nor another shoving me out a door were considered serious. These are the sort of "minor" infractions MCPS lets slip.  My read of the article is just because one "Byron Johns, chair of the Montgomery County chapter of the NAACP Parents’ Council" CLAIMS the events are minor, doesn't necessarily mean they are minor.  Or maybe he just used to pistol-whip his teachers back in the day, sees nothing wrong with these little angels tossing desks, breaking chromebooks, and so forth.
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