NEWPORT NEWS — The Newport Information Schooling Affiliation President condemned the premise of the varsity division’s movement to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.
The movement was filed final week by attorneys representing the College Board and argues that Zwerner, who was shot in her classroom at Richneck Elementary in January by a 6-year-old pupil, is simply entitled to file a employee’s compensation declare as a result of the damage she sustained from the taking pictures is a “office damage,” and that the taking pictures was a hazard of the job.
James Graves, the president of the Newport Information academics union, says that argument is “ridiculous.”
“This isn't navy, this isn't the police division. That is an training system,” Graves mentioned in an interview Wednesday.In a Fb assertion posted Tuesday, Graves mentioned, “These legal professionals have began a big hurricane in our district by saying that being shot is a part of what academics signed up for.”
Such statements, he mentioned, are “a slap in our faces.”
Graves mentioned all college employees who work with college students, together with safety officers and custodial staff, have expressed concern in regards to the movement.
“This has been an emotional curler coaster experience to me and to all of the academics,” he mentioned. “Academics are very upset and so they’re popping out sturdy. They've woken up a bear.”
Graves known as on all college employees to attend upcoming board conferences.
The submitting from the board’s lawyer final week states that it's the “unlucky actuality” that instructing in America is a occupation not with out its risks.