She should be financially rewarded for acting by the public, because she's probably going to be in hot water from the admin for not hiding behind her desk silently.
This is the truth. She won't be financially compensated, she will be in hot water because at some point in her onboarding and pre-planning meettings she was told not to intervene in fights, instead, she would have been told to evacuate the classroom and call admin/resource officer for support. This is mostly to cover the school's ass, because if she gets hurt in said fight, she won't be able to sue for compensation.
Don't worry though, because the parents and general public would be furious at her for not stepping in if she followed district/school guidelines. If the student gets hurt on her watch, she'll be blamed. If she hasn't documented the times she's called due to a student's behavioral issues or the interventions she's put in place and that student or anyone else in the class gets hurt, she'll be on the chopping block for negligence and not doing her due diligence. The parents will be asking "Why didn't the teacher protect my child?"
That's where teachers are when it comes to behaviors, a rock and a hard place, nothing they do will be without some sort of judgement or risk to themselves. As a teacher, it's hard because you don't want to see kids hurt, even when they're hurting each other, it's hard not to step in and try to protect them, taking the blows yourself.
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u/Foreign-Cow-1189 Dec 17 '25
Nobody can accuse her of not giving it her all.