> The first teacher he attacked did not want to press charges. I wonder why. Perhaps she did not want to see him get a criminal record? <
It’s more likely that she was pressured to let the whole thing go away. I saw a lot of that in my decades as an urban public school teacher.
School administrators value good PR above all else. They don’t want to see messy arrest and trial details reported by the media.
So it might have went like this: Teacher, we have a deal for you. Drop the charges and take a month off to recuperate. Those days won’t be deduced from your sick day total. But if you want to press charges anyway, understand that you’ll be hurting the district.
Let me add something else to my post #24. As I noted there, a teacher/victim is often offered free paid time off if she’ll drop all charges.
Such a teacher is often also offered her choice of buildings to transfer to. That might get her out of a hell-hole building into one that’s relatively decent.
All you’ve got to do is drop the charges. Oh, and if you don’t cooperate it will be implied that you’ll be stuck in that hell-hole building for the rest of your career.
The first teacher he attacked did not
want to press charges. I wonder why.
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Maybe he was packing a nice sized
log with him.