Teacher shot by 6-year-old student says
school ignored warning signs: $40M suit
New York Post,
by
Lee Brown
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
4/3/2023 1:44:51 PM
The Virginia teacher shot by a 6-year-old student filed a $40 million lawsuit on Monday, accusing school officials of repeatedly ignoring warnings that the disturbed youngster had a gun.
Abigail Zwerner, 25, filed the suit nearly three months after she was shot while teaching at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News by a first-grader with “a history of random violence,” according to the lawsuit. (Snip) Zwerner filed the suit after school officials refused to settle, claiming that it was effectively a workers’ compensation case.
“That’s what they’ve maintained, up until today, that that is just part of the job” for a first-grade teacher “to be shot by their own student,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/3/2023 1:54:13 PM (No. 1440101)
Why anyone would want to teach in public schools is beyond me. If you want to teach, go find a good private school and teach there. The tuition cost keeps out the riff-raff, and the troublemakers whose parents can afford the tuition are expelled quickly.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Noj15 4/3/2023 1:55:19 PM (No. 1440103)
I'd easily award her $40M.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scrubber 4/3/2023 1:57:21 PM (No. 1440104)
He was seen with a gun by another teacher, and that person “reported” it? He/she should have tackled the tyke (you know, the “good kid”who was headed for medical school) and pounded his noggin into the floor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 4/3/2023 2:16:37 PM (No. 1440109)
I'm unable to access the article. ( I always get that swirling rainbow of death when I go to the NY post). Now is this the one where a parent was supposed to be with him while at school? Or was that the other 6'6" 300# 17yr. old thug who almost beat and kicked a teacher to death because she supposedly took a video game from him?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/3/2023 2:37:40 PM (No. 1440122)
Protected by Ebony Parker and we have to guess the race of the shooter?
Then again even the victim teacher has a seriously pierced nose. HOME SCHOOL, POD SCHOOL, ANYTHING but public school.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ncva 4/3/2023 3:39:20 PM (No. 1440168)
This happened about 20 minutes from me. The last I heard, the 6-year-old is being treated at a local children's mental health facility. Talk among local teachers and administrators is that school and division officials were intent on preventing teachers from filing "too many" reports about behavioral issues because it would damage the division's reputation. The kid allegedly hid the gun in the front pocket of his hoodie. When the asst. principal was told that the gun could be hidden in his clothes (after his backpacked was searched), she said he was too small to have it on his person.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 4/3/2023 4:05:38 PM (No. 1440180)
It's amazing that a six year old is has “a history of random violence,” in the first place, but, I know there are some who do. Why wasn't he being watched closely, in an alternative school away from the regular kids and teachers?
Just last Saturday night my thirteen year old granddaughter got a call from a friend at 11:30 pm. Since that never happens my GD answered right away and her friend was crying asking for my son-in-law. He is the principal at the Jr. High, my GD went and got her my daughter instead. The girl told her that she had to tell her about a new boy in seventh grade who was bragging about having a "kill list,"that he had a gun and was going to shoot up the school. By that time, the both the girl and my GD were crying uncontrollably. In the morning (Saturday) my SIL was at the school. First he talked to the girl who called him, then the police were called. They spoke to other kids who corroborated the story. The police went to the boys house where he was living with a relative. At first the relative demanded a lawyer be present but when the police showed her his social media posts she relented. Apparently it was serious enough to remove him from school permanently. I am just so happy that the little girl who made the first call was smart and brave enough to say something. As it turned out she hadn't even told her mother. I guess it was lucky too that her friend was the principal's daughter. I wonder if she would have spoken out otherwise?
What has happened to us as a nation when we have to fear six year olds? My high school parking lot was filled with pickup trucks with gun racks, and, we had some kind of "drive" once where about fifty of us won really nice Jack Knives, and we all survived to graduate.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/3/2023 4:05:51 PM (No. 1440181)
I see the reason the problem was ignored.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 4/3/2023 4:34:27 PM (No. 1440199)
Good for her. Sue the snot out of them!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
judy 4/3/2023 4:50:44 PM (No. 1440212)
How in the world does a 6 year old child get out of the house with a gun???Where are the parents?????
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 4/3/2023 4:58:18 PM (No. 1440219)
Sue the parents too.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
learner 4/3/2023 6:31:32 PM (No. 1440278)
What are the gun laws like in Va? The 'adults' who supervised this little bundle of joy should do hard time for allowing a 6 year old access to a gun. The other reports of him pulling up a girls dress and touching her inappropriately as well as chasing kids in the schoolyard with a belt just seem to scream 'learned behavior' from the neanderthals with whom he lived. Definitely from the very shallow end of the gene pool.
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Why didn't the teacher simply talk to the police about this kid if she was so sure of her information that he had a gun? That school district is wrong in this instance. Pay for her medical costs incurred you tightwads. She has a valid case here and you cretins at the district offices know it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
broken01 4/5/2023 10:25:29 AM (No. 1441480)
I used to live in Portsmouth in the late 90s which is not too far from Newport News. Both cities back then were crime ridden with bad schools full of kids like the 6 year old shooter. Now it seems that things haven't changed in 2023 and only have gotten worse. The latest I've heard is that the school administrators are trying to blame the teacher who got shot. While giving the "little darling" a pass since he's so young. Pure BRAVO SIERRA. I hope that her lawsuit is successful because the dimwits in charge of NNPS and Richneck Elementary need to be held accountable.
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