Maya Jones has been on medical leave with PTSD since October of last year after a student repeatedly punched her in the face, she said.
A Boston Public Schools teacher says she was violently attacked at her Roxbury school by a student, then retaliated against by the district for requesting safeguards ahead of her own return to the classroom.
“I could have been hurt. I could have been killed. I could have been maimed,” said Maya Jones, an eighth grade teacher at the Tobin School, a K-8 school near Roxbury Crossing. “We have no security protocol in the building. There’s no discipline protocol. The Code of Conduct isn’t being followed.”
Just a month into the school year, while holding a community meeting about “the uptick in student disrespect” with multiple adults in the room, a teen girl verbally assaulted her before slamming her laptop down and charging at Jones, according to the teacher…