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I Was Assaulted By A Special Needs Student At School, Unsure Of What To Do.

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I’m a senior in high school, and one of my classes involves working with the special ed program. A week ago, a girl in the class punched me in the head completely unprovoked, which resulted in me getting a severe concussion. She groped an aide, verbally harassed another student, and I found out today that she chased another teacher around with scissors trying to stab her. She was only suspended for 1 day, but didn’t go to school for the rest of last week. The concussion resulted in a late night ER trip where doctors told me I was extremely lucky that I didn’t have any internal bleeding. I don’t know what to do. Apparently the reason why she hurt me is because she was disciplined in the first place even though I wasn’t involved, and I’m just at a loss for what to do. I’m an AP student, so it would be really difficult for me to change my schedule and drop the class, but I also need the class credit. I’ve talked to my school’s admin and they said that they can’t really do anything. There’s 5 aides in the class, and they all said they couldn’t get to her in time, but they weren’t even paying attention to what was going on until I yelled out in pain. I don’t want the girl to get in trouble because I know it’s not like her fault that she did it, but I don’t feel safe around her. Everyone keeps telling me I should press charges or sue the school, but I don’t feel like that would do anything because she’s got such a severe mental disability, and I only have one semester left of highschool. Any advice is greatly appreciated ❤️

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