The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.

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.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 year ago

    If the US doesn’t want to have metal detectors and bag searches… then how about some gun regulations, to fix the actual problem? It’s far too easy for Americans to get guns

    • @just_change_it
      3•1 year ago

      There’s a fervent following amongst the uneducated who worship them unfortunately, otherwise we would have some common sense regulation and remove a lot of needless deaths.

      Virginia is definitely one of the states which leans heavily towards the worship part.

    • @dx1
      1•1 year ago

      Man, I don’t know how much you guys remember being in school, but stuff like random searches or going through a metal detector to go to school is a real authoritarian, dehumanizing thing when you’re a child.