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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3089104

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.

  • ErasmusEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    By a kindergartener as well. 20 years ago this would have been an Onion headline.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      To be fair, that’s true for most US headlines these days:

      • coup-leader repliblican favorite for president.
      • Pro-life movement causes infant and maternal mortality to rise.
      • Debt ceiling negotiations will start about 4 weeks before deadline.