‘I Get Scared To Go To School’: Uptick In Violence In Baltimore County Schools Has Students Fearful & Parents Concerned

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — There’s a large uptick successful unit successful Baltimore County Schools.

“I get frightened to spell to school,” said Baltimore County School student, Ileana Nazario.

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Videos from Dundalk High School are circulating online showing students warring each different successful the parking lot.

“They tackle each different to the crushed they fistfight and bleeding everywhere,” said Nazario.

And students similar Ileana Nazario accidental it’s happening crossed the county.

“Kids getting slammed into walls getting slammed into lockers. I conscionable get sick and bushed of it it’s horrible truly horrible,” said Nazario.

Wednesday, schoolhouse leaders met with parents for a virtual municipality hallway hoping to easiness concerns implicit safety.

“Fighting among students is simply a occupation that usually starts with unresolved conflicts. We cognize adults are cardinal successful helping students recognize due ways to woody with conflict,” said April Lewis, Executive Director of School Climate and Safety.

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The superintendent says this occupation goes acold beyond the region arsenic students instrumentality to the schoolroom aft much than 18 months of virtual learning.

“Schools crossed the state seeing an uptick successful disruptive behaviors accent the pandemic placed connected children,” said Superintendent Darryl L. Williams.

school officials accidental they person resources disposable for students similar intelligence wellness counseling and social-emotional learning. They besides person a broad information program to prevent, respond to, and mitigate immoderate convulsive behaviour astatine each schoolhouse campus.

“It’s lone getting worse,” said erstwhile Baltimore County Public Schools employee, Hayden Borkowicz.

But immoderate radical accidental close now, it’s not working.

“They conscionable get each uptight and they commencement arguing backmost and distant and there’s nary authorization fig to accidental hey halt it sound it disconnected and there’s nary consequences,” said Borowicz.

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When it comes to consequences, schoolhouse officials accidental administrations grip these connected a case-by-case ground and springiness the effect they spot acceptable including includes detention oregon suspension.

Kelsey Kushner