My x-wife is a teacher. Years ago, a student punched her in the face. When she reported the incident to the principal the reaction was “What did you do to provoke him to punch you?”
The little monster was suspended for a few days ONLY because her dad had a friend on the school board,
My wife was a paraprofessional for 20 years. From the time she first started, to the time she retired, the deterioration of discipline was alarming. She had kids openly disrespect her verbally towards the end. She was glad to get the hell outta there.
People don’t know.
The old line is everyone THINKS they know what goes on because they went to school…100 years ago.
It’s changed and most of the negativity comes from admins and state officials not teachers.
BTW what a Story , that is awful. She should have got a lawyer and sued the school for failure to protect their workers/having an unsafe work environment.