"Col. RJ" <colrsj@alltel.net> wrote in message
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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/13448.htm

I don't know about N.Y., but new teachers in California are expected to
endure a "baptism of fire" by starting their careers in ghetto *****
warehouses. Not surprisingly, the burnout rate is high, so now the latest
gimmick to lure teachers to inner-city shitholes is for the state to pay off
their student loans if they'll endure the TNB for X number of years....
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GYM TEACH SIDELINED BY FEAR AFTER TEEN ATTACK

By ALISHA BERGER

December 15, 2003 -- Jean Daniels was prepared to teach her gym class at
Christopher Columbus HS like it was any other day - never thinking she'd be
brutally attacked in her safe haven.

On Oct. 30, about halfway through her 13th-period class at the Bronx school,
two young men came into the gym where Daniels' students were practicing
volleyball drills.

They weren't from her class, and Daniels approached them with the intention
of asking them to leave.

"They started to high-five the kids," Daniels said. "They were disturbing
the class . . . I said to myself, I have to get rid of these kids because
they're going to cause further disruption."

Daniels, 50, walked up behind a young man and blew her whistle, hoping to
get his attention.

"He turned right around, fist drawn, and hit me in the left temple," said
Daniels, a petite woman with short, brown hair. "Thank goodness he missed
the temple exactly. If he'd hit me exactly, you can kill a person right on
the spot."

The unknown man took off, and Daniels asked one of her students to get a
school security officer. None was available.



The students were shocked, and Daniels asked them to gather around her so
she could calm them down.

"I didn't want them to go out without first addressing what had happened,"
she said. "A student from the next period started to come in, and I asked
him to wait. I went over to close the door, and that's the last thing I
know. I remember closing the door."

Daniels woke up in a chair, not sure how she got there. Her temple throbbed,
and she had a large welt on the back of her head. She was in pain. She
doesn't know if she fell or if she was hit again.

Emergency services were called, and Daniels was taken to Jacobi Hospital,
where she was monitored for 24 hours. She had two hemorrhages in her left
temple area and a nondisplaced fracture on the right side of her skull.

Her alleged attacker was arrested two days later. Now, Daniels wants to
throw the book at him.

"Nail him to the wall," she said she told the Bronx district attorney's
office. "The students need to know they can't get away with this."

But perhaps what is most disturbing is this: The 18-year-old charged with
attacking Daniels isn't a student at the school and never should have been
on the property.

"This was an intruder who happened to be 18 years old. He was not a student
at the school. The question is what was he doing in the building, how did he
get in and what was he doing in my classroom?"

Daniels said the apparent security gap is troubling and added that she can't
be expected to focus on her job if she has to watch her back.

"I want to worry about my kids, not my own personal safety," she said.

Daniels has not returned to her job. She says she suffers from headaches,
blurred vision and a gnawing fear that it isn't safe for her to return.

"He's got relatives, cousins in the school," she said. "I don't know if
there are going to be any repercussions or not. I have no way of knowing
that. Would I feel comfortable walking out to my car after dark? No, I
wouldn't now."