NEWPORT NEWS — The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.
The motion was filed last week by attorneys representing the School Board and argues that Zwerner, who was shot in her classroom at Richneck Elementary in January by a 6-year-old student, is only entitled to file a worker’s compensation claim because the injury she sustained from the shooting is a “workplace injury,” and that the shooting was a hazard of the job.
If you are going to take the argument that “preceding events should have caused expulsion” please provide references otherwise the argument is a lot of hot air. “Acts of random violence” in this case probably doesn’t involve more than a kid having tantrums. If the kid stabbed a classmate or did something truly violent you can be sure something would have been done and it would have made the news.
No one is saying that kids should be bringing guns to school. No one even IMAGINES a six year old bringing one in!
They knew the child had a gun and did nothing. That’s the lawsuit, full stop. Keep digging.