She is suing. Sounds like the district really is screwing her over compensation wise and otherwise. I don’t know if the group home is named or not...
When did anyone in the past ever think of teaching school as a hazardous occupation? It is now in many places. Not only is it hazardous for the teachers but just going to school is hazardous for the students too. In the past it was limited to bad areas but now, with mainstreaming, it is pretty much everywhere.
In about 1992, the district we were in "blended" schools moving some children from one to another and even closing one school that had very bad test results. I happened to be present the day at the end of the year before the actual blending took place and they "introduced" the children from the closing school. When they walked in the hush was deafening. The new kids were ghetto thugs brought into a flock of sheep. What was going on was driven by developers and realtors. They would work with the school board to raise test scores in areas with new developments that needed to be sold. Mostly sold areas took the hit. The area we had moved to consisted of upper middle class and high achievers, it was sold and now standards could be sacrificed for the next instant suburb. That summer we moved and stayed ahead of the mess long enough to get our children graduated from a decent and much smaller school district. Test scores went down in the school we left, trouble went up and the football team improved remarkably.
Suing could help this victim but it will not change the system. The liberal education system will not get the message. Neither will the school boards, their hands are mostly tied by regulation and law. They can't discriminate against any disadvantaged class and so they make all of us disadvantaged. Sounds like socialism doesn't it? Spreading misery around equally?