At 11:55 am Friday, Antioch Police were notified of an incident at Deer Valley High School which involved a battery of a teacher by two students. The school clarified saying the teacher mistakenly explained the incident to police instead of school administration.
According to school staff, the report to the police department was inaccurate and there was no battery of a teacher as stated over radio traffic. Instead, a student threw a waded paper at his head explained Stephanie Anello, assistant superintendent of the Antioch Unified School District.
“I just spoke with Mr. Gardner, Principal of DVHS. He stated that a new teacher was writing on the whiteboard when a student threw a waded paper at his head. He thought he was calling the office but apparently called the police instead. He relayed the story to them and stated he thought two boys might be involved,” explained Anello.
Principal Ken Gardner issued the following statement.
“The incident involved a student who wadded up a piece of paper and threw it at the teacher. In fact the suspect in this incidence was not accused, but rather two witnesses, who were also in the classroom. Our administrative and security teams investigated the incident and found that the two accused were in fact witnesses and the suspect was held accountable. The teacher has been apologized too and no one was hurt or struck.”
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Coverup! Teachers are scarred to death at this school everyday, not knowing what and from whom violance will happen.
Even if it was “just” wadded paper, it doesn’t justify the bullying of teachers and victimization that happens daily! Teachers don’t have a leg to stand on! It’s such a hard job anyway, and to be told that if your classroom management was better, the students wouldn’t throw things at you or they would respect your rules or any other number of things that do nothing but redirect the blame from where it should be, (parents and students,) and put it on the teachers who are working a thankless job that requires them to pay money out-of-pocket, spend 60+ hours away from family, and repay thousands of dollars of student loan debt all because they want to make a difference for a kid. They don’t deserve the utter lack of respect and downright ABUSE that happens all to often. This is just one example. It happened to me, so I speak from experience.
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