Posted on 01/27/2023 1:48:13 AM PST by grundle
The Virginia teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student texted a loved one before she was wounded that the boy was armed and that school officials were failing to act, according to a source close to the situation.
The source on Tuesday said Abigail Zwerner sent the text about an hour before she was shot on Jan. 6, saying that the student said he had a gun in his backpack and administrators at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren’t helping.
The text “showed her frustration,” said the source, who only disclosed details of the single text message to NBC News and not the messages that came before or after it. “She was frustrated because she was trying to get help with this child, for this child, and then when she needed help, no one was coming.”
On Wednesday morning, Zwerner’s attorney Diane Toscano held a news conference and said three teachers went to the school administration about the boy’s behavior on Jan. 6 and that he was believed to have had a gun on campus.
Toscano said the “administration could not be bothered” and the tragedy was “entirely preventable” if the administration “had taken action when they had knowledge of imminent danger. But instead, they failed to act and Abby was shot.”
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They’re like little Chuckie dolls at that age. Just take the backpack away.
Reminiscent of ppl in a hurricane dialing 911 as their house floods and wondering why no one comes.
He must have had it on his person in his “little pockets”.
Apparently his backpack was searched a couple times. And then the admin concluded he must not have it on him because his pockets were little....all this from stories yesterday.
Other accounts I've read on this were that the teachers were absolutely certain the boy had the gun shoved in his waistband but were paralyzed by policy to place their hands on him in order to search without jumping through a bunch of administrative hoops.
Sounds like a law suit for sure against the school. Who wouldn’t
have acted on that tip but incompitent buffoons .
Just take the backpack away.
He didn’t have it in his backpack. It was in his waistband, and he had already shown it to another child and threatened to kill him. The teachers knew where the gun was but they couldn’t search him physically without permission from the administration.
When they asked permission, the administrator told them to leave him alone because the school day was almost over anyway. Incredible incompetence.
The big unasked question is …
That has to be a lawsuit or it should be.
If I was a teacher in a classroom and I knew one of the six year old students had a gun in his backpack, there are at least 200 other things I’d do before I even thought of texting a friend.
Yeah, that’s what I do when a six year old is armed, I text someone about other people not doing something.
Yup, public school admin many times are looking away at responsibilities they have and the teachers get stomped.
They are going to have to write her an extremely large settlement check. They won’t want this case going to a jury because they showed a total disregard to a known threat and violated their own policies in refusing to do anything about it.
I hope she sues them right into homelessness.
It’s you and I who will be homeless, if these incompetents keep getting hired. The school district (us) will be the ones getting sued.
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Oh, you work for that particular district?
Where was Alec Baldwin?…
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