The lawsuits need to target the union funds. All the teachers in the system who dreamed of a nice pension and a comfortable retirement? They should all lose it because the Union pension fund is drained dry. Too bad you bastards didn’t do the right thing.
I’m no fan of teacher unions (I was an involuntary member of one for decades). They are corrupt and undemocratic. Oh, the stories I could tell you.
But a teacher union has very little to do with incidents such as the one in this article. It’s 98% on school administrators. They set up a permissive atmosphere where violence is winked at. Attack staff or a student, and get a warning. Do it again, and maybe get suspended for a couple of days. Big deal.
Students at my school called such suspensions “HBO weekends”. They got to stay home and watch TV while their friends had to go to school.
So what about the union? They get the remaining 2% of the blame for not putting up a fuss over the violence. They stay quiet because they too want the district to look good.
Oh, and one more thing. I was an urban school teacher. I tell prospective teachers NOT to apply to any urban school district. And I tell parents NOT to send their kids to any urban school district.
Those places are forever lost causes.
There’s not much of a teacher’s union in Texas. Pensions here come from the state, not unions.
IIRC you cannot get someone’s pension or insurance in law suit, unless it’s a divorce settlement.