Abigail Zwerner, the Virginia teacher shot by her 6-year-old student, says she was fired and will not return to Richneck Elementary in the fall. NBC’s Gary Grumbach reports.
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I dont blame her for not coming back…stay away from public schools and all your uncontrolled animals
@Coldfeverx3 She is lucky to be alive and deserves everything she gets.
@Rachel T You are 100% correct
You have real issues!
A kid that needs a daily pat down shouldn’t be allowed in a public school. Home school😢 is the ONLY option. The kids’s mother is only part of the problem. Schools are too afraid to discipline delinquents! I hope the kid is in juvie!
Covenant Presbyterian would like to remind you – they were Christian….and Audrey Hale was an Alumni.
Why isnt the first quesstion “Why did the 6 year old child feel it necessary to shoot that teacher?”
Is the child evil? Stoopid? Abused at school?
Bullied by that teacher?
What is going on when a 6yo finds they need to have a gun and then use it.
I hope you get a brain
@Nicholas Parker You grew up in a single parent African American household?
@Learn Steel Guitar in Retirement Nope! A civilized 2 parent white household
@Nicholas Parker The kids had white hick hillybilly parents who don’t know how to lock up their guns properly.
He has conduct disorder and ODD- technically he’s a psychopath but cant be officially labeled as one until he’s an adult.
The teacher very lucky still alive due sloppy parent don’t see danger ahead with young boys need lot mental treatment period.
If she was fired she would have received a termination letter.
thanks ah phr qua
maga will label her as a woke democrat.
Nope. The more she damages the government indoctrination centers, the happier we are.
She’s rich in race realism.
The kid was black and his mother would have sued if a hair on his head was pulled out. The ghetto lottery! What’s wrong with a shooting victim getting compensation?
This was child NEGLIGENCE period!!
product of dem run welfare
@rodeo clown obama
Facts
So many other ppl could have been injured or killed by that 6 yr old smh 🤦🏾♂️🙄
Agree!👍
This is why homeschool/e-learning can be a better option!
• No bullying
• No school shooting
• No dealings with pathetic, sorry, unfit parents that NEVER take accountability for their uncontrollable animals that they decided to breed!
I hope she gets EVERY penny!
I’d NEVER go back either with a $40M win! I’d be set for life! There’d be no need for me to come back! Plus, other people could’ve been killed by that filth of a life!
The death penalty should also include kids, teens and other minors! IDGAF about age nor that tired, old, lame, played-out EXCUSE of “brain development!” If you grown enough to shoot an innocent person, you grown enough to face the consequences!
@Zakass
Seems like all the more reason to never have kids!
No kids, no problem!
@marissa._ hey, that’s the path my spouse and I chose. Working great so far!
@Zakass
Same.
You look like a boring teacher and loves gold diggers like that teacher lol
Ihome school and I agree
She was probably trying to turn him trans.
No sane person who took a bullet from a child while teaching children would want to return to teaching anyone ever
Yup, PTSD/work place injury + unsafe workplace and I’d expect to be compensated as if I worked there for the rest of my life including all benefits of such job regardless of any other job I get in life at an absolute MINIMUM.
If she wins her lawsuit (which I hope she does) then she won’t ever have to work again. She might also be able to collect disability. But that’s still a large price to pay considering this all could have been prevented if the school had simply taken her concerns seriously.
The district deserves the punishment … the school board should have to put up their property…
As penalty, and some criminal negligence charges on behalf of the taxpayers.
BLM ✊🏿
This is what happens when you take prayers out of school more drama and shootings.
Prayer has nothing to do with it. Parents need to be more involved in their children’s lives with discipline, love and guidance. It’s not the teacher’s job to raise our children, she is a added bonus to help us. Mesa, AZ June 14, 2023
@YOGI nope I don’t believe you ask soon they took prayers out and the moment of silence no less than 2 years Columbine happened these things didn’t happen in the early 90s or the 80s etc etc etc
@Larry Shelby there were school shootings prior to 1990 and one of the worst school shootings occurred in the 20th century actually bath school disaster. It’s not prayers, it’s upbringings/mental illness and guns
Prayer does nothing
@schwartzy businessGuns can’t choose human behaviors and societies.
How does smoking pot make you unfit for owning a firearm but drinking liquor dosen’t. I personally don’t think either should be enforced, but alcohol if more likely than weed to make you do something you might regret with a gun.
I know people with 100% PTSD disability that still have and buy guns!!
@Timothy OBrienWhat states!? Sure isn’t happening in OH
THE QUESTION SHOULD BE WHAT DID SHE SAY TO THAT LITTLE BOY ON THAT DAY & PRIOR??? WHAT WERE THE THINGS SHE SAID 2 THOSE CHILDREN??? IF THE INVESTIGATIONS WERE TRUE THOSE CHILDREN WOULD HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED!!! BUT OF COURSE SUCH THINGS WERE NOT CONDUCTED!!! OUR YOUNG WILL NOT TAKE THE ALMOST 500 YEAR ABUSE OF BLACK PEOPLE N AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!
Turn off your caps
@F C DO U HAVE CHILDREN??? IF SO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO!!! LIKE MANY OF U THAT HAVE NO CONTROL OVER UR OWN CHILDREN YET THINKING U CAN INSTRUCT THE RIGHTEOUS??? CHILDREN TODAY SEE HOW FAKE THEIR OWN PARENTS GIVE REASONS 2 THEIR DISOBEDIENCE!!!
Good lord 🙄
@7th Hour
Cry more 🐒 🍌 🍉
This happens when you send a student to the principal’s office and they get treated with snacks and treats. Then you report the behavior to parents and they say their child is an angel.
@Marco Salazar If you get it, you get it, but let me spill it out to you. Administrators ignore teachers when they seek support for students with extreme behavioral problems. Not too many good options they give you. One, they tell you to deal with it and to stop complaining or two, they take the student to the office and bribe them with treats. Unfortunately, our school system needs something better in place to support teachers and students. In particular situation, this teacher warned administrators many times about the student’s behavior and him having a gun and they didn’t do anything about it. Whether it’s mental health or extreme behavioral problems, there should be a plan in place for supports.
That parent clearly knew her child wasn’t an angel since the child already had a plan that required the parent to be there in class with the kid every single day. The child was known to have issues to have been given a plan as extreme as that.
@angskeet not reading your incoherent essay bye
It’s not the schools responsibility to teach common sense and respect to kids. It’s their parents didn’t even take care of them properly because they are not proper parents
@angskeetexactly
In this environment, I don’t blame any teacher for leaving. I’d leave too, and long before I was shot.
Where are the White Lives Matter protesters?
It’s illegal…
Parents need to volunteer at their children’s schools and pressure administrators to find different placements for severely troubled kids like this boy. Everyone at that school knew he needed to be in a resource room, not a regular classroom. Parents need to get more involved and we need to stop catering to the disruptive students and their parents. Right now they have all the power and they know it.
They don’t ALLOW schools to put kids in full time resource rooms. It’s illegal. You have to practice least restrictive setting first. 1-2 hrs resource a day. It really should be a law that if your child has these type of needs, and you are getting a disability check for their needs, you should be required to volunteer in their school.
Or maybe parents need to not perpetuate violence at home and allow their 6 year old to have access to a gun. But i guess some people can’t keep their legs closed.
@babigirl9111 YES i agree!!! And not having children is an option that irresponsible people should most definitely choose.
Or..
Hear me out here, because its such a radical idea that the whole world had done it.
GIT RID OF THE FAQING GUNS!!!!
@Shadowtiger2564 and how do you do that?
She should transfer to a different school! where its safe.
No school is safe in California
Don’t bother. Many countries treat their teachers like trash and the money is rubbish
If she wins or settles, she won’t need to go to any school ever again.
I hope she wins her case.
the school dropped the ball on this. I don’t blame the teacher.
I do
Hopefully your kid is in a school district that would get $40 million taken from them.. Dropping the ball is giving your money to her because of something you had nothing to do with
@AttilatheThrillait’s the schools fault. A lot of the staff knew about this kid having a gun and even the kid told another kid if he said anything, he would shoot him.
This was because he was a black kid they didn’t want to say anything…
I’m very sympathetic and all but I smell taking advantage of the situation. This comes down to a documents case. The school says she sent an email indicating she wasn’t coming back. The lawyer says she was terminated. For a termination they send a termination letter.
Where are the Docs for either side? Produce it don’t say it.
No surprise here. This brave caring teacher Abigal Zwerner should not return because she got no support from the school which jeopardized her safety. I am so relieved that she was not fatally injured.
Shut up. She just wants money
No, 40 million is outrageous
No one cares until it’s too late. It’s an ongoing cycle since, “everyone makes mistakes.”
School politics are about money.
That’s right. Get that settlement money. 😊
😂… She will retire early… 🤑 RICH
They need to make public who the shooters parents are.
I wouldn’t send my kids to that school either…If they let that happen, God knows what other weapons they allowed in that school before. Anyone’s kid could’ve been killed. Get that money teacher and don’t go back…No $ can heal the trauma you went through.
Y would she lol the kids? They shot her!
Lol. What a greedy woman. She turned her misfortune into an early retirement opportunity. 40million, for a misfortune that happened to her that day. I can work for my entire life time and barely even get 1 mil. Bogus.
Schools send these every letters to every employee at the end of each school year. It is standard operating procedure.
Doesn’t make it right, in fact it just means they have more to answer to.
Really? My mom was a teacher and she never got a letter like that.
She wont return because that wouldnt look good for her lawsuit.
Her photos are so deceiving. In video, no thaaanks
What an ongoing nightmare for that poor young woman. Teaching cute little kids and one of them shoots her! Of course he got the gun from crazy Mommy and learned that behavior from her. If I where the victim, I’d move way out west to try and put this horrible gun violence behind her. Or, join Gabby Giffords to educate people even more on the danger of guns and why they need to be strictly regulated.
It’s not the danger of guns they need education on. It’s the dangers of violent thug
Life.
Another star bucks story now scools are begging for support to EDUCATE KIDS and one teacher wants ALL MONEY…. What’s next??? Suing someone for 100 millions just because they gave u a 👀 wrong look?????? And everyone will start saying that it must be payed???America is out of its mind with its ridicule’s laws. U will regret that mark my words… it will bring country to devastation. No one will work everyone will Sue each other….
I’m sure that the 40 million lawsuit was welcomed by the district with open arms. 😂
I can think of 10 million things other than this to sue the government run re-education camps for.
“Now I ain’t saying she’s a gold digger”
Well gold diggers are great at taking money from fools.
I wouldn’t either!
Umm… don’t have first hand knowledge of what happened to her regarding her employment communication, but I work for a school district and they send everyone the same kind of email at the end of every school year. I just recently replied “return” to mine.
I don’t blame her. If I was in her situation I wouldn’t either
Why was she fired for a student shooting her? If I were her I sue the public school system. This boy needs to be held accountable period.
She might’ve been fired because she sued the public school district
On paper when you are fired, your place of employment by law can’t be held accountable for anything that stems from your termination. It’s common practice to force someone to accept being fired rather than resigning, even going so far as to manipulate language used in a paper trail, which is exactly what happened here. If they can get away with say8ng she was fired, they won’t have to pay her a dime of that lawsuit. But we all know that’s a lie and she will, I hope, be paid what’s owed.
@Ro. who owes her the school district decision or her nothing😂 that’s with Worker’s Comp. for for any injury abstained
She wasn’t fired. When she sent them an email saying “I resign” that means she voluntarily ceased to work there.
@Migel Tomas Saponthe school knew this little terrorist had a gun and they failed to say anything. Therefore, they will be sued. They have a responsibility to keep everyone safe, and if that means keeping everyone safe from this 6 year old.
Sue the parents of the kid too.
You really surprized
😮She has rights…like wanting to be safe. Give her a fat check and say sorry for failing her😢
I agree but not 40 million. That’s only going to make the schools in that district that much worse and it’s the taxpayers who are paying her that fat check!
❤😂
School Districts play this game all the time. They pressure teachers to resign: if they won’t resign, the districts go after their certification and try to get them in legal problems through any means necessary.
Fr
They act like they are the best and know everything
Lol well this school district is about to pay.
Only in America.
This video left out that the district sent her a worker’s compensation check in the amount of two thirds her pay. She returned the check because if she HAD, she would be forfeiting legal grounds to proceed with a lawsuit.
Sending them an email saying “I resign” wasn’t exactly the smartest move to do. Hard to claim she was terminated when she terminated her position herself.
Kasta
Idyay da nga limaban idi naalak ni jkips
Man women and children are vulnerable. Should help her not traumatize.
I don’t blame her one bit. I hope she has a great future.
But 40 million?!?! Why does she need that much?
@James Fagan A lawyer probably came up with that amount. I meant I was happy she wasn’t going back to teaching.
She could have died! Yes a lot of money but she was almost killed because of negligence.
How did a 6 year old know how to
Unlock safety on gun and chamber a round oh it was chambered and no safety on who leaves a loaded gun in reach of a 6 year old
because mom is a hateful bigot….
I don’t blame her for not returning.The district comes across really badly here. The lady was literally shot in the classroom. You should have been doing everything after the fact to at least make her feel like you care. The district comes across very cold.
Everything is about money in the USA.
No surprise here to find out it was a BLACK kid…Yes, it means something…Yes, its a culture/race issue.
The only culture issue is America’s dysfunctional gun culture.
Just a reminder the district isn’t paying anything. If they lose this lawsuit they’ll request more funding from the state. If she wins that 40 million it’s only the taxpayers paying that bill.
I agree I don’t and shouldn’t have to pay for someone else’s child
@Manda ••• right! It should be the parents she’s suing not the school district
@Broland 40 million dollars though? Really? She wouldn’t have earned that in her lifetime so clearly it’s not recouping lost wages. She didn’t suffer loss of a limb, so it’s not a permanent injury. “Emotional damage?” If she’s so frail she needs 40 million dollars to get over it, just commit her to an asylum where she can feel safe for the rest of her life. It won’t cost anywhere near that much.
@nobody specialnot too bright, she’s asking for 40 million knowing that most likely she’ll get 1-5 million. The school admins neglected to protect her and the students, regardless what you think she should be compensated for their ignorance.
The district would actually have to pay if they are deemed negligent. And the district would have to beg the state for additional funding in order to meet its future fiscal requirements. The state could then demand changes to the policies that put the district in the hole. The superintendent and other administrative personnel will be pressured to make personnel changes at the school in order to save their own skins. When all is said and done, school administrators who allowed this to happen will be terminated due to ‘budget cuts.’ Unfortunately this is how our system of justice works. It would be more expedient if the district took the initiative to investigate and fire the staff responsible for the school’s culture of permissive violence. In fact, that would probably reduce the asking amount and likely award for the plaintiff’s lawsuit. But the net cost will probably be the same, because the terminated staffers would likely litigate whereas it would be futile if they are terminated due to budget cuts.
Why would she be fired ?
She needs to take Scott Adams advice
In todays news… teacher who was shot by student will not return to the school to teach anymore. SHOCKING NEWS
40M lawsuit, even settle for 1/2 of that … who wants to work ?
Well I think we all know why she won’t go back to school ……… she got a big settlement from the school district duh 😒 😂
“Welcome to First Grade! Now start shooting!”
Rightful lawsuit. Pay this woman, end of story.
What a shame
She needs to sue for $500 million. ❤
I hope she wins her law suit against the school district. It’s not safe to work as a teacher any longer.
I’m sorry to the younger generations, but the last thing I want is to be teach k-12. I grew up dreaming of becoming a teacher. But the world is just too messed up and the youth is over influenced by all the bs
Of course she isn’t going to return to the school. And she should sue the district, the family of the kid that shot her, and anyone else that’s liable. Precedent must be set.
I don’t blame her for not wanting to return to that classroom, but I also hate to think that she is yet ANOTHER victim who’s taking advantage of her victimhood by suing someone for millions. Sad that victims always seem to need to get rich from their misfortune.
Good more opportunities for poc to have that job
U.S.A.
I don’t blame her, need a new word for traumatizing.
Would you?
America is a joke
She’s a good teacher sorry happened to her why would she return to school? It would be very traumatizing.😢
Worthless principal – knew that kid was dangerous, refused to do anything about it.
I hope she continues teaching in the future somewhere else.
40 million is an amount guaranteed to allow her to live happily ever after without ever working another minute.
Gotta be a pretty greedy lawyer to argue “I wish to resign” means “I was fired.”
Why is her employment being questioned first of all her district and office employees l/staff didn’t show support or had a protocol in place when she advised them about what was happening n just avoided it n didn’t dig in further. Also when you sue your employer they automatically fire one.
It starts at home. And todays kids are being raised by VERY irresponsible parents. The school district also needs to be held accountable.
$40M ?!?!?!? I wouldn’t go back to work either….
Sue the parents
Stop
They might as well just open their check book
I’m sorry it’s illegal to use marijuana if you own a gun but you could still drink alcohol while owning a gun because that’s so much safer right
Who can blame her? Between the way the school handled this and the fact that children can be absolute little monsters anyway. They are some of the cruelest creatures on this planet.
Could they please just prosecute the kid? Who cares if he’s very young? Normal kids know not to shoot people at the age of 6. He’ll probably end up killing someone someday.
If the school district fired her, they’re in for a hefty wrongful termination lawsuit.
Perhaps the terminology “I resign” was too hard to understand? It means, she, the employee, opted to not remain employed by the school district. The school district never at any time told her “you are terminated. Nor did they say anything like “hey, take the next rest of your life off because you aren’t getting paid after Friday” or anything similar. The lawyer is arguing that her sending in an email saying “I resign my position” somehow equates to the district terminating her when in every other example of that happening, it’s a sign of the employee quitting.
Best decision you’ll ever make is not to become a teacher.
who cares?
Why would she?? 😳
I wouldn’t return as a teacher. The hll with the little brats.