Teacher/staff And Ptsd.

[calijean]

Is anyone dealing with workman's comp due to an on the job injury ending up with the diagnosis of PTSD, especially in the public school system?

I feel like I am hitting a brick wall and its hindering my healing.

I feel like nothing I meant nothing to them.

No justice was done or future protection from this violent attack.

Am I alone?

 

[sarahndipity]

You are not alone! I was also attacked at my school by a student and have felt like the school district does not care about me. I have dedicated 10 years of my life to working with at-risk students. Now, when I need help I am unable to get it.

My district could not confirm if the student was able to return to the middle school where I work. They say they'll "fix it" when I return to work. I can't bare the thought of being in that out-of-control school again. The students rule that school and has left it an unsafe environment for us to be.

Have you been working with your union? I sometimes wonder if mine rep is working for me, or for the district? He just told me to "get back on the horse." That is the mess I am in. Oh, and workman's comp wouldn't take my case because I have no bruises. They told me they don't support cases where the teacher has panic attacks or nightmares do to trauma that occurred at school.

So no, you are not alone! I am surrounded by the same situation you are.

 

[Resilientbibliophile]

Greetings,

Sadly I have no direct advice to afford, but I do have a book title to offer up that at least validates the experience of enduring non-stop abuse for continual exposure to wildly unruly children and adults too! Perhaps the same could help to frame and formally present how unrealistic administrations expectations are, as well as accentuating the psychological costs of simply being pressed into the front line and abandoned forthwith?

Arlie Hochschild's The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling comes recommended. Within said title is introduced the concept of 'emotion work', i.e. the emotional sacrifice extracted from individuals within select work roles - especially if said roles basically deny us any possible recourse to endure slights and insults for 'such is the bargain'. Perhaps something to consider, and as a librarian so-isolated in relation to affording service to many an unstable and unruly patron (and always at high risk of matters coming back to me), I found the title illuminating, grounded, and refreshingly level-headed. Kind regards...

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[calijean]

You are not alone! I was also attacked at my school by a student and have felt like the school district does not care about me. I have dedicated 10 years of my life to working with at-risk students. Now, when I need help I am unable to get it.

Wow I just cried and cried. Why why why is it that we dedicate our lives to helping children and this happens to us. i dont understand. I'm so very sorry.