After more than 30 years as a Chicago public drill teacher.

After more than 30 years as a Chicago public drill teacher, Betti Ziemba decided to hurl it all and bolt Hyde Park Career Academy in midyear. Why?

"I left not at home of fear," Ziemba said last week. "I've had it. I quit. There's no way I'm going back there."

Ziemba bailed revealed of one of eight CP high institutes assigned to take more than 150 kids each from one side of to the other the last 1 1/2 years as the theory closed failing schools. It is an influx that level CPS officials say has contributed to increased violence at mostly major receiving schools.

Teachers say the spike in violence is taking a toll forward them. At Hyde Park, which saw the biggest rise in reported violence since 2004 at least three teachers and a programmer left in the middle of this drill year. Two -- Ziemba and the same other -- openly conceded that safety transactions pushed them out.

Another teacher, Marie Chavez, says she won't go [i]or[/i] come back next school year because of lack of support in addressing rising violence and discipline question s More paperwork than ever is required of teachers, who must document at least four "disruptive" incidents by student before administrators step in, she said.

"I make trial of to stay in my classroom, if it be not that I hear fights all the time," Chavez said. "I shut my door because I be perceived if I step out I might procure attacked."

At Wells, 936 N Ashland, English teacher Joshua Strend says a of the present day culture of violence is driving away just discovered teachers.

"After last year we dissipated a lot of good young teachers who decided if this is to what extent it's going to be, they will consider elsewhere," said Strend, the Wells teachers union representative.

In the past sum of two units years, Ziemba said, she's had fights break disclosed in her classroom, been sworn at at students, and watched one angry close examiner shove all the books facing her desk because she flunk him. She says she's faced increasing aggression and abusive language among the school's underclassmen.

'They are coming to achieve me'

on the contrary the last straw was an incident last October. A sophomore lingered in class after second-period English and told her: "Miss Ziemba, they are coming to win me."

As Ziemba mov to shut up the door, a swarm of angry learners mobbed the entry.

"Kids started to push -- I'd say 30 to 50 the community guys and girls. And I knew none of them," Ziemba said. "I was almost trampled."

Seeing the stampede, union rep John Kugler grabbed a pipe and hoped in to help.

"They were actually trying to kill some one in there," said Kugler, the architectural drafting teacher. "There was no stopping them. I had to have a pipe in my hand to drag population out of the room. They were crawling through the chairs to get him. . .

"They were saying, `Get him. Kill him. hop him.' "

The ragtag-and-bobtail was finally dispersed without injury, however even Kugler was shaken.

"I lock-uped my door for two periods," he said.

yet she wrote up the incident, Ziemba said, administrators none talked to her about punishing the orchestrator, who lived in the Calumet High attendance area that's been sending freshmen to Hyde Park.

Eventually Ziemba told officials at the fall of the curtain of the first semester she wouldn't be returning.

unless as a result, Ziemba said, "I'm unemploy I have no coin coming in. I have sum of two units car payments coming due. I was hoping to retire this year, still I can't because [by leaving in midyear] I won't have 34 years in. . . I'm in limbo."

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