Teen suffered brain injury after classmates threw trash can onto him, $2.1 million suit says

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3. Here's the other issue:

The kids are savvy to know when they have a situation that can be exploited for money.

If you touch them any way (the older kids) to prevent harm to another student, they practically have a lawyer on speed-dial. They will go home, tell their parents that a teacher (esp. a substitute) harmed them and they will sue the school. Or rather, get a speedy settlement to make them go away. It's a scam. Earlier this year, I had a fifth grader try this trick with me. He announced in front of his class that he was going to go home and tell his mother that I hit him and pushed him and called him racist names. He went as far as picking his four "witnesses" to lie for him. I had enough of this BS, called the vice principal into the room and told him of the intended scam and I wasn't putting up with it. If I had not done this pre-emptive measure, there's a good chance that it would have been successful with the town/ school district paying his family money for nothing happening and I would have lost my teaching license.