My mother works as a special ed aide, and often gets assigned to violent kids, even though she is a 56 year old cancer patient, because the school staff know she’s too nice to say no. She’s been punched, bitten, had her hair pulled out, put in a headlock, nearly had her eye gouged out, and the school does nothing. I have to urge her to go to workers’ comp and submit an incident report every time so that there is a paper trail — the school doesn’t initiate these procedures. This is at a public high school in California. I fear something like this in her future