Teacher shot by 6-year-old says school was warned 4 times, announces lawsuit

[mtpockets]

Toscano laid out a timeline of events the day of the shooting:

At around 11:15 to 11:30 a.m., Zwerner went to a school administrator and told them that the 6-year-old had threatened to beat up another child that day. The administration did not take action or remove the student from the classroom, according to Toscano.

At 12:30 p.m. a teacher told a school administrator she searched the 6-year-old's backpack for a gun and told the administration that she believed the boy put the gun in his pocket before going outside for recess. The administrator downplayed the report and responded that the boy has little pockets, according to Toscano.

Shortly after 1 p.m., a third teacher told administrators that another student who was scared and crying confessed that the shooter showed him a gun at recess and threatened to shoot him if he told anyone, according to Toscano.

A fourth employee asked the administrator for permission to search the boy but was denied and was told to wait the situation out because the school day was almost over, according to Toscano.

Zwerner was shot almost an hour later, according to Toscano.




Crazy sh!t

[Guyfawkes1010]

Good for the teacher, gonna be a huuuuge payday.

[Postmort3m]

So the administration was so terrified of offending the kid’s parents (he had some type of disability) and the ensuing sh*tstorm, he played ostrich hoping the day would just end with the problem going away.

[Mark1T]

Apparently the school ignored these warnings. Unimaginable.

[OldFartTom]

.... The administrator downplayed the report and responded that the boy had mt pockets, according to Toscano...

There, FIFY

[mtpockets]

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."

[steffo99]

Ban 6 yr olds! Tragic though ofc..

[paulinkansas]

4 warnings, none were heeded.

I read somewhere that if something goes wrong, it's just an occurrence. If something goes wrong twice, it's a coincidence. If something goes wrong 3 times, there is something wrong with the system.

[mtpockets]

A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according to a legal notice filed by an attorney for the wounded teacher.

Two days before the shooting, the boy allegedly “slammed” Zwerner’s cellphone and broke it, according to the claim notice. He was given a one-day suspension, but when he returned to Zwerner’s class the following day, he pulled a 9mm handgun out of his pocket and shot her while she sat at a reading table, the notice says.





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[Tommy W.]

People are so scared of being accused of racism and being sued for it. This is the result.