Los Angeles Teacher Suspended After Pressing Charges Against a Student For Assault

Joel Eisenberg
4 min readNov 2, 2021

Introduction

That teacher was me. The incident occurred 20 years ago in a Los Angeles school for at-risk youth. Though I was not injured, I pressed charges to teach my student a lesson and was summarily suspended for my troubles.

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Joel Eisenberg

Joel Eisenberg is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and producer. The Oscar in the profile pic isn’t his but he’s scheming. WGA and Pen America member.