A lot of bad things happen to a lot of people. This is the current tenor of American life. I’d thus expect most of the population has forgotten about when a young elementary teacher took a round through the hand into the chest from a 6-year-old last winter.
I’m not trying to make light of her brush with death, just noting since it was simply the most outrageous thing that happened that day, folks move on pretty fast. The boy’s mother was doing a good job though:
Some snippets from her recent legal action:
“Zwerner sued the school district for $40 million after learning that school officials knew that the child had brought a gun to school that day and that the child had previously threatened teachers……“
This area usually features school officials of a certain hue, so that sounds quite plausible.
“Newport News Circuit Court Judge Matthew Hoffman ruled that Zwerner was not confined to recovery under worker’s compensation because the shooting did not fall within the scope of her employment.….”
The public schools in Newport News (known locally as Bad Newz, VA) are mostly black. So, basically, the legal rationale offered, without saying, is she should’ve expected to be shot because her students are black, was that she volunteered to participate in a combat scenario.
By comparison, when the DOD sends personnel into a fray it’s made known beforehand what they’re up against, certain additional compensation is involved, letters are pre-written to family, etc. If a soldier gets shot in the chest, he receives the Purple Heart to honor his sacrifice made for the USA.
This teacher was basically informed post-combat that she was a soldier but that what happened to her was the equivalent to falling off a ladder at a job site. I don’t expect anything better from our country, and I knew they’d try to stiff her right from the start:
“Plaintiff was clearly injured while at work, at her place of employment, by a student in the classroom where she was a teacher, and during the school day. Teaching and supervising students in her first grade class was a core function of Plaintiff’s employment. Thus, Plaintiff’s injuries arose out of and in the course of her employment and fall under Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Act.“
Here’s the most amazing part, the shooting was simply a facet of:
“educating John Doe through his behavioral evaluation and educational journey.”
I think Jarquavious Doe would be a better name for this kid who’s going to mature into a crime wave by the age of 12. The notion he proffers any value to society whatsoever is risible. That education is a journey proffering any value to him is a sick joke. I consult a pretty sophisticated AI system to help me make predictions. It told me dead or in jail.
The judge actually agreed with Zwerner’s lawyers that you can’t tell an elementary school teacher that getting shot was a hazard to expect in her classroom. The district is going to appeal, so we’ll see what happens.
Let’s consider the big picture and ponder some implications of the district’s course of action against its former teacher. Specifically, I’m wondering if any bigwig in the Virginia state government has ever become concerned about publicly informing teachers that getting shot while they’re trying to teach class is something to expect. Moreover, that in the event that this happens, which is an escalating risk for all teachers in the state, they’ll be treated as poorly as possible.
Yes, in the big picture, telling this young lady that they’re very sorry she was nearly shot to death and offering an appropriate settlement would be better crisis management. Hell, Alex Jones has to pay 1.4 billion just for hurting people’s feelings with his opinions about a shooting. He didn’t even shoot anybody himself.
As a country, we’ll have to grapple with the dynamic that we can have blacks behaving like blacks with minimal consequences or we can have things that we’ve come to rely on as functional, such as a public school system.
Blaming the victim isn’t going to solve this problem, but we’ve seen this turn into the standard approach. When you can’t fix a problem or even acknowledge why it’s occurring, blaming the victim becomes one of your only courses of action.
I have no idea what Ms. Zwerner’s politics and personality are like, but when a 26-year-old woman shows up to teach elementary school and nearly takes a round to the heart, she’s the victim.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
The American experiment is so over. The system is fubar. Such an attractive young woman should have been home teaching her own children rather than working as a glorified prison guard monitoring primitive hominids who are more likely to stab or shoot the teacher than do any homework.
If only it’d been the other way around…. Think how happy our sun toned friends would have been for a new opportunity to riot, loot, and hoot.