Abigail Zwerner, a Virginia first-grade teacher, has been informed by lawyers for the Newport News school board that she is only entitled to file a worker’s compensation claim because the injury she sustained when a six-year-old child shot her is a “workplace injury”. The board’s lawyers claim that being shot is simply a hazard of her occupation. James Graves, the president of the Newport News teachers union, told the Daily Press “This is not military, this is not the police department. This is an education system,” On Facebook, Graves posted more thoughts: “These lawyers have started a significant hurricane in our district by saying that being shot is part of what teachers signed up for.”…

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    In newly unsealed court documents, it was revealed that the child could be heard making statements such as “I shot the b—– dead” shortly following his shooting of Zwerner.

    how does this happen?