Posted on 02/07/2023 1:27:02 PM PST by Morgana
A six-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher constantly swore at staff, tried to whip other students with his belt and once choked another teacher 'until she couldn't breathe', a lawyer has claimed.
The incidents were described in a notice sent to the Newport News school district by Diane Toscano, a lawyer for teacher Abby Zwerner who was shot by the same boy earlier this year.
The lawyer informed the district that Ms Zwerner intends to sue.
Ms Zwerner had just finished reading a story to her class, who were about to head to an art lesson, when the six-year-old pulled out a handgun and shot her on January 6.
The notice of claim outlines the boy's behavioral issues, and troubling interactions he had with teachers and fellow pupils at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia.
Two days before the shooting, the six-year-old allegedly 'slammed' Ms Zwerner's mobile phone and broke it, according to the claim notice.
He was given a one-day suspension, but when he returned to Ms Zwerner's class the following day, he pulled a 9mm handgun out of his pocket and shot her while she sat at a reading table, the notice says.
The document says that several hours before the shooting, at least three teachers and staff members warned school administrators they believed the boy had brought a gun to school.
His backpack was searched, but no gun was found, and administrators did not remove the boy from class, lock down the school or call police.
The claim notice says Ms Zwerner went to former assistant principal Ebony Parker's office at about 11.15am that day 'to advise her that the shooter seemed more 'off' than usual and was in a violent mood'.
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Veteran public school teacher here.
Before 1995 or so, school administrators valued order and education above all else. Those folks were allies of the classroom teacher.
But no longer. Today’s school administrators are fully woke. And they value public relations above all else. They will make no move that could reflect badly on the district.
“You’ve got a violent student in your class? Too bad! That’s your problem. We’ve got to keep the suspension rates low. Low suspension rates make the district look good!
We don’t care if a violent student is disrupting the education of others. And we don’t care if you are assaulted. That’s your problem.”
No teacher is going to get in a physical altercation with a non-white elementary school student, they would be practically lynched by the media and courts.
If a teacher can’t handle a 6 year old perhaps it’s time for a new line of work?
Honestly don’t see how a 6 year old boy can overpower an adult female teacher and choke her, unless she is ancient or physically disabled somehow. Any of my adult teachers, male or female, would have overpowered me at age 6.
"Today’s school administrators are fully woke. And they value liberal, eletists, racist black public relations above all else. They will make no move that could reflect badly on the district in the eyes of those who hate the country and hate whitey, racists."
There are still, although dwindling amount of, those who aren't happy about what's going on in the public (and some private) schools. The problem is, they are either terrified of speaking up for fear of losing their job...or even arrested, or they are too busy with life to be bothered.
Why wasn’t this kid get kicked out of school and sent to some mental health facility? Why wasn’t Child Protective Services knocking on the parents door? Back in my day that kind of behaviour would have brought a visit from the county sheriff and a quick trip to a juvie facility
I could not have been a teacher. I would have slapped the little b@st@rd into the 4th of July, and he would still be seeing stars.
If I was a Teacher’s Aide in such a class, and a student of any age tried to hit me with a belt, my first impulse would be to grab that belt and beat the student once, maybe twice with it, to give him a taste of his own medicine.
I would be prepared to look for some other job some other place, unless I had a very understanding (and bold) principal to work for.
At very least, I would take the belt away, and turn it over to the office. I would not sit there and just take getting hit like a cheap pinata.
Unless six year old you had a 9 mm trained on the teacher.
But there were obviously dozens of instances to deal with this budding criminal before he shot the teacher.
Me either
Lack of father in the home
They searched his backpack while he was at recess. He had it with him there and showed it to another child
If he loops a belt around a neck
Ah yes the penguin brigade
Yeah particularly after the little one shoots you in the chest
Come up from behind and loop a belt around her neck
Presume the teacher was sitting in a chsir
>>Sounds like a young Robert DeNiro.<<
hunter biden
Lock it up for life it’s him or us
It’s a funny thing. I worked in an urban school district that was perhaps 60% black when I retired. It’s certainly higher now.
The administrators talked about racial equity a lot. My honors physics class had better have the right mixture! It didn’t matter who was qualified to be in that class, and who was not.
But when it came to discipline, those administrators did not differentiate between race. A black disruptive student, a white disruptive student, a brown disruptive student…it was all the same. Do not discipline them! Do not suspend them! That would be bad for our district’s reputation!
Now here’s the interesting thing. The pain in the a$$ students were almost all black. They’d use their cell phones in class, use vulgarity, etc.
But the true psychos were almost always white. I kept an iron ring stand pole on my desk. That wasn’t for the vulgar black kids. It was for the psycho white kids. If one of them decided to rush me, they’d get a very unpleasant surprise.
Fortunately for me I was able to retire before I had to bring that iron pole into action.
The entire school board should resign over their incompetence allowing teachers to be beaten, choked and shot . They are evil, period!
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