The teacher/victim
The black thug
The hate crime
Posted on 11/15/2023 1:59:03 PM PST by thegagline
The Florida teacher who was beaten unconscious by a hulking teen student over a video game said she’s now forced to live off donations — and wants no mercy shown for her attacker at his upcoming sentencing.
“Everybody that knows me or knew me [before the attack], knows that I’m a totally different person now,” Joan Naydich told Fox 35. “My whole life was just turned upside down.”
Then 17 years old and standing at 6 feet 6 inches tall, Brendan Depa assaulted the paraprofessional inside Matanzas High School in February, leaving her with five broken ribs, a severe concussion and hearing loss.
Naydich told the station that she wants Depa sentenced to a maximum of 30 years behind bars for the stomach-churning incident that left her physically and emotionally broken.
Naydich said that her speech has slowed and that she suffers from ongoing cognitive problems.
Compounding her physical ailments, Naydich said she is struggling to get her workers’ compensation case resolved and has been all but abandoned by the Flagler County School District since the attack.
Naydich returned to the school under a different title in August but was then placed on an unpaid leave of absence, according to Fox 35.
Without any steady income, she is now relying on donations and assistance from the community to stay afloat.
A GoFundMe account launched after the attack has so far raised roughly $106,000.
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The teacher/victim
The black thug
The hate crime
Placed on leave for what?
It’s also the culture of public education that is to blame.
That would not have happened a couple generations ago. And if it did, the perp would have had the book thrown at him.
Florida. Hello, DeSantis? Where’s the governor’s office on this atrocity?
She is probably being ostracized for refusing to let prosecutors downgrade charges, as they have repeatedly tried to do. It is despicable, but common for them to reduce them for “juvenile” offenders, even though this one MUST be locked up for life or he WILL murder someone else.
She can’t do her job anymore.
The school board put her at risk and then abandoned her when she became injured from their actions.
Probably that as well.
And again for those who don’t know the reality of the rules public schools are subject to, the thug in question is ‘special ed’, which means it is virtually impossible for the district to punish him severely for any misbehavior. Even attempting to restrain him while he is beating someone up is limited to staff who have had special training.
The law requires that the thug be educated in the ‘least-restrictive’ environment possible, which means he will spend a lot of time in regular classrooms—next to the normal kids. The district is incentivized to not declare him to be out of their control because the district will be financially responsible for wherever he may be placed, regardless of cost. And those costs will come off of the top of the district’s budget.
I imagine the district will be required to pay whatever prison facility he is sent to for their education expenses—until he is 21, because he is special ed.
>> She is probably being ostracized
Well those ostracizing can go FOAD.
This woman must find new circles of support and protection.
If he was not “competent to stand trial” how was he competent to go to public school or to walk about freely?
DeSantis is going to have to tell Washington where to go, even if it means foregoing the Washington dollar for education.
He dindu nuffin!!
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A 270lb baby faced innocent Teen
My 5 foot tall wife was a special ed teacher for 35 years. She had some close calls and got some bruises but never really got damaged.
The violent hulking teen had three prior battery arrests before the attack on Naydich.
Depa’s attorneys have highlighted his mental deficits and argued he wasn’t competent to stand trial.
Now 18, the 6’6” Depa was initially charged as a juvenile in the case before the raps were upgraded.
School districts DO NOT back there employees when its violence towards staff.
As happens in every industry. In some, you say, “no, I’m not administering this medication and doing your dirty work for you,” and leave.
Where do you want the governor's office?
In front of potential jurors making inflammatory statements that could have the case tossed or a conviction overturned?
No thanks. The governor will have a chance to have his say when he is asked for clemency.
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