A judge in Virginia has ruled that a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in class can press forward with a $40 million lawsuit.
A good six year old with a gun would’ve solved this. /s
If only the Kinder-Guardians were there…
That was hilarious.
Also no way only Sacha baron Cohen is acting in this, right? Like a few others are in on this, surely
https://youtu.be/4k4pMTsa1Kw?si=cXHUcK5TaSocG5ES
That guy was fired
The school board is basically admitting that teaches are gonna get shot as part of their jobs. That’s so fucked up
Lawyers for Newport News Public Schools had tried to block the lawsuit, arguing that Zwerner was eligible only for workers’ compensation. It provides up to nearly 10 years pay and lifetime medical care for injuries.
Zwerner’s attorneys countered that workers’ compensation doesn’t apply because a first-grade teacher would never anticipate getting shot: “It was not an actual risk of her job.”
This is the good bit though:
“The actual risk of employment in this scenario is that of a teacher being injured at the hands of a student which, unfortunately, is a fairly common occurrence and one that is only increasing in frequency this day and age,” school board attorney Anne Lahren said in a statement.
IIRC the teacher expressed concerns about the student having a gun, and the school administration said something like, “he has tiny pockets! a gun can’t fit in tiny pockets” and she got shot like less than an hour later. I used quotations but it’s not an exact quote.
This is actually kind of hilarious, how do you fuck up this bad
https://apnews.com/article/newport-news-school-shooting-a40dfad64388aadf1f90211177412522
The administrator downplayed the report from the teacher and the possibility of a gun, saying — and I quote — ‘Well, he has little pockets,’ ”
Shortly after 1 p.m., another teacher told an administrator that a different student who was “crying and fearful” said the boy showed him the gun during recess and threatened to shoot him if he told anyone. Again, no action was taken, she said.
When another employee who had heard the boy might have a gun asked an administrator to search the boy, he was turned down, Toscano said. “He was told to wait the situation out because the school day was almost over,” she said.
Can we just get whoever these chucklefucks are and ask them why they were so unconcerned with the fact that three different people came to them talking about a 6 year old they’re in charge of being seen with a gun?? Isn’t the normal response to ONE person telling you about a child being seen with a gun on school grounds to actually investigate whatever is going on?
That’s the most American sentence ever.
The school shirked it’s responsibilities. They will be paying, not the kid.
If American schools are supposed to stop school shootings they will be at it all day.
Forget the school, the individuals in the administration are the ones that need to be sued.
Like the school district is going to be able to pay out $40 million.
Point being, the school district will shoulder all the consequences, or just declare bankruptcy, all at the expense of the taxpayers and the students and teachers that all of those taxes are supposed to be going to, while the actual people that made reckless and criminal decisions face almost no personal consequences.
While I agree that the individuals in the administration who touched the issue and failed to act should be at the very least fired for negligence resulting in serious bodily harm, I don’t think they did anything criminal. They made some poor decisions and a woman was hurt under their purview - they did not cause the woman to be shot.
Not in a civil suit. They were working in their position as the legal authority of the school, making decisions in that role and not as private citizens.
They were the school and the school is liable.
No, they need individual punishmemt, too. Same with cops. Same with business executives. They all hide behind their position and avoid personal consequences. Like the south park “we’re sorry” episode mocking BP?
We need to be holding individuals accountable when the institution let’s things happen. It’s the only real way to get bad people out of power.
Forget the school, the individuals in the administration are the ones that need to be sued.
No, they need individual punishmemt, too.
They were not saying as well but instead of.
Personally, I believe they should be barred from any position in education but that is not what I was replying to.
