The Newport News School Board has issued a response to Virginia teacher Abigail Zwerner's $40 million lawsuit, arguing she should only be entitled to workers' compensation.
where a 6-year-old student shot his first-grade teacher earlier this year has filed documents asking a court to throw out her $40 million lawsuit, arguing that with her injuries she is only entitled to workers’ compensation.
However, the Newport News School on Wednesday said in response to her filing that Zwerner was "clearly injured while at work, at her place of employment, by a student in the classroom." "While in an ideal world, young children would not pose any danger to others, including their teachers, this is sadly not reality," the filing stated, according to The Associated Press.
"If the allegations in the complaint substituted ‘sharp scissors’ for ‘gun’ and John Doe stabbed in the neckthere would be no doubt that the injury would fall under workers’ compensation," The Associated Press quoted the board’s response as saying. While in kindergarten, the same child was accused of strangling another teacher a year prior. The complaint also says the boy pulled the dress of a female student who had fallen while on the playground and "began to touch the child inappropriately until reprimanded by a teacher."
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