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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“Sounds like a young Robert DeNiro.”
Sounds like the old one, too.
Good point.
“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.”
Exactly. That’s why we hear stories about cops being called and kids getting handcuffed. Teachers aren’t allowed to get physical with the kids and cops have protocols to deal with the unruly.
They mainstream the troubled kids and this is one of the results (outside of, of course, where the hell did he get a gun and metal detectors are needed at schools). My daughter worked as a teacher’s assistant for a while and saw a lot of it. One kid was a desk licker, literally would lick his desk. She saw a lot of angry little ones, too. They disrupt the class often, too.
The report is that he came up behind her while she was sitting and jammed his forearm into her throat. Another teacher had to break it up. The response of the school was to move him to another class. That’s it.
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