DC: A teacher raped by a student in September 2014 could get $3 million after a Florida school district failed to inform the teacher about the student’s troubled history.
The School Board of Miami-Dade County paid $200,000 to the teacher, identified as Jane Doe, as part of a $3 million settlement deal for the 2016 civil lawsuit. The district is seeking approval to pay the rest as government organizations are required to have legislative permission to pay anything that is more than $200,000 in damages. The school district’s insurer paid $1.5 million, the Miami New Times reported Wednesday.
Broward County Democratic state Sen. Perry Thurston filed a bill on Dec. 13 so the school district could pay $1.3 million if passed.
Doe was originally hired to work with elementary and middle school deaf students in the district in 2012, according to the Miami New Times. She was assigned to teach students with behavior and emotional disorders at South Dade Senior High School in August 2014, even though she did not have the license or self-defense training needed to handle such students. MORE HERE
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We tend to use the word “outrageous” rather loosely, myself included, but this story is about a really and truly outrageous crime or crimes.
Are there explicit school system policies and procedures to specify just who has the responsibility to inform all affected parties, particularly teachers, of violent or criminal acts by students under their charge? If not, then the school district administrators failed to write adequate P&P.
Was the board representative who notified the school administrator also required to notify parents, teachers, and staff of the potential for violence? Or was it the school admin who was so required? One, the other, or both should be charged with criminal negligence or some other crime where you know perfectly well something bad is very likely to happen and you do nothing to warn those in danger or to remove the threat.
I’d bet that no school or board official is disciplined, much less fired, or much, much less sued as an individual, or much-much-much less charged with a crime in this situation.
And that is a crime.
Something has to be done about those rampaging Amish youth in South Florida
you allow/encourage those in society that are anti-social (to the point of pathology) to become even more so, & they will take your bet & become even more anti-social
& you are shocked that they become even more that way? who, exactly, is the mentally-unstable one? they are just doing what their misguided programming tell them to do …. you, on the other hand …..
today, we award such stupidity w/ scholarly awards, doctorates …. & Peace Prizes
Miami-Dade-the same school district that hid astronaut-to-be Trayvon Martin’s crimes. Had he been prosecuted and convicted of burglary, he would have been sitting in jail instead of sitting on top of George Zimmerman (albeit briefly).
A young friend is working towards a doctorate in psychology. Summer of 2017 she was working with troubled, mentally disabled youth and was considering that for her career. I told her (and her parents) that she should take courses in jujitsu or something similar – at some point a mentally challenged patient will try to overpower her and some basic self-defense could be a life saver.
A friend works as a life-coach for the mentally disabled (teen to young adults). He has told me that if a student gets verbally violent or throws items, they are given a second chance. 2nd incident, they’re out.
If a student touches a teacher or another student in a violent way, they are expelled that day.
These students can be 6 feet tall and weigh twice the size of a female teacher sometimes. It’s a rough job, mentally and physically.
The kid – and the school administators – should be hanged.
It’s time we make school administrator personally liable for the 3 million.
As the psychologist for a Behavioral Intervention team one of my jobs was to both do a threat assessment, teach staff about behavioral tendencies, and train physical intervention/protective techniques (as a skill I learned a number of martial arts “belts” and degrees to certify as a trainer to train trainers).
We left very little to chance and always required double staffing with dangerous folks.
It costs money and time to do it right and usually bad things happen when a staff member or an administrator blows protocols.
Schools were usually the worst because they always complained about staffing and money and would say, “Just once it won’t matter.”
He was just hot for teacher.
We’re automatically notified if a sex offender moves nearby. So explain why a teacher was not warned about this student.