Baltimore County Superintendent Says Pandemic Trauma Causing Uptick In Disruption, Invites Community Discussion

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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Darryl Williams connected Friday invited assemblage treatment connected an uptick successful “disruptive behavior” astatine schools successful the county.

A freshman miss was airlifted to a hospital connected Thursday aft a locker country combat astatine Franklin High School. The 2nd miss successful the combat was charged with first-degree assault. The incidental is the latest successful a trend of violence successful Baltimore County Schools.

Williams said it’s not conscionable Baltimore County. As students instrumentality backmost to in-person classrooms this semester, they’re having occupation adjusting.

“The ongoing trauma experienced by families arsenic a effect of this planetary pandemic continues to manifest itself successful an uptick of disruptive behaviors,” Williams said successful a missive to parents Friday. “We are not alone, schoolhouse systems crossed the federation are facing akin challenges.”

The “increasingly disruptive behaviors,” arsenic Williams enactment it, are adding accent and exhaustion for unit and interest for families.

The superintendent announced a database of opportunities to “ensure the schools tin absorption connected learning and teaching.” The opportunities see virtual municipality hallway meetings, bringing cardinal bureau unit into schools, and circular array sessions with assemblage partners, teachers and different leaders.

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Here’s what was announced:

Upcoming Live Virtual Town Hall Meetings by portion during the Week of December 13. These solution-oriented meetings are a travel up to the systemwide gathering held successful October and volition absorption connected community-related information concerns. They volition beryllium facilitated by School Safety Managers and Executive Directors that enactment straight with schools. Meeting accusation volition beryllium sent via School Messenger.
Deployment of central bureau staff to schools to code identified needs, supply an enhanced big presence, and assistance guarantee harmless and supportive environments.
Use of alternative acquisition options for students successful request of further support. School unit volition enactment with families to make responsive solutions to conscionable the needs of each students.
BCPS Student Council will motorboat a system-wide intelligence wellness consciousness run successful December and spouse with the Maryland Center for School Safety for a “See It, Hear It, Report It” run successful January.
Upcoming Parent University presentation connected conscious subject entitled “Supporting the Social-Emotional Needs of Your Child and Yourself” with a absorption connected the taxable of composure. It volition beryllium held connected Tuesday, December 14 astatine 12:30 p.m. For much accusation and to register, sojourn the Parent University link oregon telephone 443-809-0365.
Parent Teacher Association Council of Baltimore County will beryllium gathering successful January to stock resources with each section PTA presidents focused connected the important relation of the assemblage successful moving with the schoolhouse territory to physique harmless and supportive learning environments. Local PTSA’s volition big schoolhouse circumstantial meetings focused connected safety.
We volition bring unneurotic leaders, teachers, enactment nonrecreational and assemblage partners for a multi-district, round array session. Participants volition collaborate and enactment unneurotic successful January 2022 to place innovative solutions.