HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A community of teachers and parents are standing up for a Pioneer School District Teacher after a student repeatedly attacked her in class. Educators and other concerned parents addressed the school district about school safety on Wednesday night. “What you saw online over the last two days and what you are seeing here tonight is representative of the support our community has for our teachers and students,” Pioneer Teachers Association President Allison said. The Hanford community is standing up for a fellow teacher. “It’s incredibly sad that it took a bruised and battered face to bring attention to what teachers in our county have been dealing with quietly for years,” Pioneer Union School District Teacher Monica Cano said. It was an emotional room after a social media post went viral showing a Frontier Elementary teacher with a black eye. According to the post, this is the third black eye she suffered from the same student. “They need to protect themselves. You guys have done nothing for this staff. Teachers should not be assaulted,” Amalia Phillips, a parent with kids in the district said. One teacher recalled her experience with assault in the school district after serving as a substitute teacher for her daughter's class. “Then I subbed in her class, and I was choked by my lanyard and punched in the stomach by a student. I had an immediate understanding of what was going on, and it wasn’t learning," Holly Pereira, a parent with kids in the district said. Dozens of concerned parents and teachers are left with more questions than answers. One parent described a tough conversation with her son who was in the same classroom. “I had to ask him if he feels safe in the classroom, if he knows who the child is. And he said the child is still in class, that the child sits in the back of the classroom and that the child is not allowed at recess,” Anna Marie Johnson, a parent with kids in the district said. We asked the Pioneer Union School District for a statement; however, no comment is being provided. One parent is hoping the school staff will do better to communicate incidents in the classroom. “I feel like the schools should have addressed and notified at least the parents in the classroom in regards to the incident,” Johnson said.