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What the dystopia?

Virginia School Board attorneys argued that Abigail Zwerner - the 1st grade teacher shot in her classroom by a 6yo - is not entitled to more than worker’s compensation bc the shooting was “a workplace injury” & “hazard of the job.”

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/03/educators-outraged-teacher-shot-in-school-workplace-injury/


Educators ‘outraged’ after attorneys argue 1st-grade teacher shot in school is ‘workplace injury’

The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.
Jeff Bailey (The Denver Post)
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Marie Greene
Marie Greene
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Does anyone wonder why teachers are leaving the field? As if it weren't already dismal enough for them with low pay, having to buy their classroom supplies out of pocket, and dealing with ridiculous antics from parents - and now they have to accept being shot by a 6yo as a regular workplace risk? That's a hell no. I hate this!
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James M.
James M.
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so dystopian. 😡 I guess they do actually *want* teachers to leave the profession.
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Ttown🌐✌
Ttown🌐✌
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Where, in the curriculum of Masters of Education is the part about "defend yourself from 6yo students with pistols?".

This needs to be pushed to the Supreme Court.

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ZoeOeoZ
ZoeOeoZ
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The victim is always to blame or forced to carry the burden in this out of control capitalist nightmare.
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Ray Hayes
Ray Hayes
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Of course the real horror is that it may in some ways be true. And the same could be said for anyone in contact with the public. At some point, someday, someone could decide to just show up and shoot me. Maybe because I've handed out food to the homeless, donated books to the library, etc. It could be anything.
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DTrasler Writing
DTrasler Writing
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So, if the whackos had their way and enforced armed teachers in school, would she have been justified in shooting the kid in self-defence? (Can't imagine a teacher doing so, but this is all unreality, so...)
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Seb
Seb
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I guess we got confirmed again that it's seen as normal that people kill each other whenever for whatever reason. Congratulations to the ever evolving human society. 🤢
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Groovy Tasia
Groovy Tasia
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And then they sit there wondering why less people are willing to be a teacher now
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2¢
2¢
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the sickest point is that their reasoning is sound - in spite of the fact that, IMO, there was administrative negligence regarding earlier warnings. Dystopia indeed.
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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘
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So, "getting shot on the job" is now an "assumed risk" for U.S. school teachers when they take the job?

What an F'ed up country we're becoming under #GOP control.

#GOP
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epicdemiologist
epicdemiologist
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I hope their fucking insurance gets cancelled, and no one will ever insure them again.
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Cindy Weinstein
Cindy Weinstein
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shortages (for this and other reasons, of course. See #Florida). No need to wonder why.
#florida #theonion #teacher
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Oreo Teeth
Oreo Teeth
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So Virginia teachers should all be getting combat pay if that's just a hazard of the job.
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JorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦
JorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦
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“ the shooting [of a 1st grade teacher] was “a workplace injury” & “hazard of the job.”

What sort of school organisation/state/county can say such rubbish.

Insanity doesn’t begin to describe it.

#usa
#gop
#nra
#guns
#school
#virginia
#education
#republicans
#righteousright

#usa #Education #GOP #school #guns #republicans #nra #virginia #righteousright
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Roger Haase
Roger Haase
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Getting shot to death is just a personal risk you take for living in the US of A.
That is not a dystopia, but gruesome reality.
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Pamela
Pamela
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So teachers are expected to risk gunfire from their students as part of their job description???
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Heart_Dominance
Heart_Dominance
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for a cop maybe, not for a nurse, teacher or someone taking on the role of a public servant. Even a prison guard would probably be able to sue the prison if they were shot by a prisoner and it was proven that it was due to the negligence of the prison. Outside of a parody on her workplace I don’t believe she’s ever uttered the words “it comes with the job” after she saves two children held hostage in another teachers classroom. Negligence of parents or school. That’s where I’d be going🎖.
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Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦
Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦
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appropriate hazard-pay coming in 3, 2, … What’s that? No hazard pay? More likely budget cuts instead?

Embarrassing.

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mikemills
mikemills
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If it was a worker's comp issue then it's an workplace health and safety issue and the employers responsible need to be charged with failing to provide a safe workspace and forced to take appropriate remedial action to make the workplace safe.

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