Ok, if it's a hazard of the job, I vote teachers can go to school in riot gear

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!

so dystopian. 😡 I guess they do actually *want* teachers to leave the profession.

Agreed.

The victim is always to blame or forced to carry the burden in this out of control capitalist nightmare.

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.

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...)

What. The. Hell.

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. 🤢

@fulelo YOU WANNA BE A TEACHER???
YOU CATCH THE BULLETS!!!!
#capitalism #gop style

And then they sit there wondering why less people are willing to be a teacher now

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.

It *is* a hazard of the job these days and that is *sick*.

being shot is a hazard of the job? 🤦‍♀️

I hope their fucking insurance gets cancelled, and no one will ever insure them again.

@Lazarou ..more despicable lawyering in the good ‘ole US of A..

shortages (for this and other reasons, of course. See #Florida). No need to wonder why.

WTF?

Bypass the paywall : https://archive.is/zR8Tv

So Virginia teachers should all be getting combat pay if that's just a hazard of the job.

if this is a workplace hazard, did the school board provide the correct PPE?

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.

only in amerikkka

So teachers are expected to risk gunfire from their students as part of their job description???

#CapitalismIsAPlague

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🎖.

WTF????😕

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.

this is alarming