Hi!
I'm a single mom of two teens...I was a high school English teacher in an inner city...when I was 6 months pregnant with my first child, I was body slammed by an 8th gr football player. Two fetla blood cells mixed with my own...my principal told me to go cover a class??? The student said I had been standing in his way??? I weighed about 120 lbs at the time.
I developed severe depression and ptsd. Stayed out of work for 6 years, got my Masters and returned to teaching, same district...no one else would hire me.
Two yrs back at work, a student wanted my attention, I ignored him...he pulled my hair...inconsequntial you may think...how3ever, I went ballistic screaming at him...no one came to see what was happening, director of this school said it was just a prank and he got detention??/
A year later I was in a severe car accident, bad whiplash, etc...when I returned to teaching, only school available was the dumping ground...constant fights in school, etc. , no materials...a mess. A teacher overheard one of my students say that she was going to kill me and beat up another student. However, she refused to put it in writing...(she was pregnant and afriad the girl would go after her???) They did put an aid in the classroom (ha! Like that was going to stop her???) however, one day I came into the building and several students ran up to me stating that the student had just beat up Kayla and had disappeared, had I seen her??? For whatever reason I went into shock mode...and stayed the day...went to pick up my kids (they were 9 and 6 at the time) and came home and called 911..was having shooting pain in my left arm up into my neck...was hospitalized for 3 days, thinking I was having a heart attack...it was a panic attack, thank God. Went back to work...needless to say, girl was no longer there.
Two years later, another school...was in my classroom when an unfamiliar student came in and refused to acknowledge me...looked through me and toppled over a couple of desks to get at one of my students who was standing behind me...began to beat her badly. I ran to the room next door and screamed for them to call the office..ran back to my classroom as my student;'s head was being beat into the cement wall...I jumped on the assaliant and attempted to pull her off, screaming at the top of my lungs. NONE OF THE THREE MALE ADMINISTRATORS EVER CAME TO HELP. For some reason, the assailant decided she was done, left and voluntarily walked to the office??? I went out of work for injuries sustained whilst I was attempting to protect my student. Two weeks later, a teacher called and wanted to know if I was out of work due to an injury or to the fact that the assailants mother had come to my classroom and had stated that she was going to "beat her fuc**** as* " because in the heat of the fight I had supposedly called her daughter a b*****? It took those same 3 MALE ADMINISTERS 2 HOURS to get her out of the building...they did not call the police, write it up or notify ME?! Once again, out of work due to PTSD Went back to a differnt school 9 months later...as my psychiatrist stated that I was well enough to return to work????
At this high school, although in the inner city, was ranked one of the top 500 in the country??? I was continually harrassed by a senior...both of his parents were dr's and the admin just wanted him to graduate and get out of their hair...nothing was ever done to him...it was my own fault...etc, etc...
The following year I switched to a vocational school and thought I had found HEAVEN! I brought well over $1000.00 of my own books into the classroom, as the school did not have a library...did detention, covered classes, did the breakfast program and attended professional development. I was def trying my hardest to give the kids a great education with the limited resources we had. The students were great... (most of them!), the VP was awesome and backed up the teachers. However, my heaven turned to HELL as my principal harrassed me nearly every day and I would go home crying. One day, I cornered the VP and was hysterically crying, He assured me my job was not on the line...and must have talked to the principal as he did stop harrassing me.
Fast forward to May of that year...the VP was angry with the number of students who were tardy to class and directed the teachers via the public intercom to lock our doors after the second late bell...one of my students came rushing up to the door as I lwas closing it, yelling she was not late. I directed her to go to the VP office...and we then had a verbal exchange...she then pushed me..I was in the doorway...when this did nothing, she gathered her strength and head butted me in the shoulder. As I fell back into the classroom, she then pushed by me and sat down in front of me. I then told her that she had just assaulted me and she replied, "You shouldn't have been standing in my way" I had to call the VP to come get her.
I went to my desk and sat there stunned...and was fortunate to have a movie that my students were watching...wrote out the discipl;ine referral, and left to go home and hibernate.
Yes, once again I was diagonosed with PTSD...out of work for the rest of the year. Unfortuantely for me, my union refused to give me a lawyer and I had to fight the school dept to receive workers comp...did not get any money for 3 months! Wound up in the day program of our local mental health hospital...several months later, my mom had a bad car accident...and then a brain anyerism... a few months later...severe flooding forced me into a hotel for 5 weeks... all whilst I was still fighting the school dept for back pay....
I applied for a state disabilty pension....and was denied...hired a nimcompoop for an attorney...and was denied on my appeal... 17 yrs in service...
So...I have 4 years left on workers comp and then ....???
Are you still reading??? LOL yup I can kinda laugh...but it is not easy.... thank you for taking the time to allow me to write this and be with people who know and can understand what I am going through...
I'm a single mom of two teens...I was a high school English teacher in an inner city...when I was 6 months pregnant with my first child, I was body slammed by an 8th gr football player. Two fetla blood cells mixed with my own...my principal told me to go cover a class??? The student said I had been standing in his way??? I weighed about 120 lbs at the time.
I developed severe depression and ptsd. Stayed out of work for 6 years, got my Masters and returned to teaching, same district...no one else would hire me.
Two yrs back at work, a student wanted my attention, I ignored him...he pulled my hair...inconsequntial you may think...how3ever, I went ballistic screaming at him...no one came to see what was happening, director of this school said it was just a prank and he got detention??/
A year later I was in a severe car accident, bad whiplash, etc...when I returned to teaching, only school available was the dumping ground...constant fights in school, etc. , no materials...a mess. A teacher overheard one of my students say that she was going to kill me and beat up another student. However, she refused to put it in writing...(she was pregnant and afriad the girl would go after her???) They did put an aid in the classroom (ha! Like that was going to stop her???) however, one day I came into the building and several students ran up to me stating that the student had just beat up Kayla and had disappeared, had I seen her??? For whatever reason I went into shock mode...and stayed the day...went to pick up my kids (they were 9 and 6 at the time) and came home and called 911..was having shooting pain in my left arm up into my neck...was hospitalized for 3 days, thinking I was having a heart attack...it was a panic attack, thank God. Went back to work...needless to say, girl was no longer there.
Two years later, another school...was in my classroom when an unfamiliar student came in and refused to acknowledge me...looked through me and toppled over a couple of desks to get at one of my students who was standing behind me...began to beat her badly. I ran to the room next door and screamed for them to call the office..ran back to my classroom as my student;'s head was being beat into the cement wall...I jumped on the assaliant and attempted to pull her off, screaming at the top of my lungs. NONE OF THE THREE MALE ADMINISTRATORS EVER CAME TO HELP. For some reason, the assailant decided she was done, left and voluntarily walked to the office??? I went out of work for injuries sustained whilst I was attempting to protect my student. Two weeks later, a teacher called and wanted to know if I was out of work due to an injury or to the fact that the assailants mother had come to my classroom and had stated that she was going to "beat her fuc**** as* " because in the heat of the fight I had supposedly called her daughter a b*****? It took those same 3 MALE ADMINISTERS 2 HOURS to get her out of the building...they did not call the police, write it up or notify ME?! Once again, out of work due to PTSD Went back to a differnt school 9 months later...as my psychiatrist stated that I was well enough to return to work????
At this high school, although in the inner city, was ranked one of the top 500 in the country??? I was continually harrassed by a senior...both of his parents were dr's and the admin just wanted him to graduate and get out of their hair...nothing was ever done to him...it was my own fault...etc, etc...
The following year I switched to a vocational school and thought I had found HEAVEN! I brought well over $1000.00 of my own books into the classroom, as the school did not have a library...did detention, covered classes, did the breakfast program and attended professional development. I was def trying my hardest to give the kids a great education with the limited resources we had. The students were great... (most of them!), the VP was awesome and backed up the teachers. However, my heaven turned to HELL as my principal harrassed me nearly every day and I would go home crying. One day, I cornered the VP and was hysterically crying, He assured me my job was not on the line...and must have talked to the principal as he did stop harrassing me.
Fast forward to May of that year...the VP was angry with the number of students who were tardy to class and directed the teachers via the public intercom to lock our doors after the second late bell...one of my students came rushing up to the door as I lwas closing it, yelling she was not late. I directed her to go to the VP office...and we then had a verbal exchange...she then pushed me..I was in the doorway...when this did nothing, she gathered her strength and head butted me in the shoulder. As I fell back into the classroom, she then pushed by me and sat down in front of me. I then told her that she had just assaulted me and she replied, "You shouldn't have been standing in my way" I had to call the VP to come get her.
I went to my desk and sat there stunned...and was fortunate to have a movie that my students were watching...wrote out the discipl;ine referral, and left to go home and hibernate.
Yes, once again I was diagonosed with PTSD...out of work for the rest of the year. Unfortuantely for me, my union refused to give me a lawyer and I had to fight the school dept to receive workers comp...did not get any money for 3 months! Wound up in the day program of our local mental health hospital...several months later, my mom had a bad car accident...and then a brain anyerism... a few months later...severe flooding forced me into a hotel for 5 weeks... all whilst I was still fighting the school dept for back pay....
I applied for a state disabilty pension....and was denied...hired a nimcompoop for an attorney...and was denied on my appeal... 17 yrs in service...
So...I have 4 years left on workers comp and then ....???
Are you still reading??? LOL yup I can kinda laugh...but it is not easy.... thank you for taking the time to allow me to write this and be with people who know and can understand what I am going through...
