Post by augustwest on Mar 21, 2024 6:06:22 GMT -5
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/baltimore-city-public-school-parents-violence-6ZVJ6SJTF5GELNONJCJPZYRVB4/
More than three-quarters of respondents had seen an increase in disruptive behavior by parents or relatives on their campus. And 64% said there had been violent incidents involving parents on their campus this school year. Seventy-three percent said parents threaten or attempt to attack staff at their school.
More than half of administrators said the bad behavior on the part of parents had made them consider leaving their jobs.
Renaissance Academy principal Tammatha Woodhouse has an ongoing internal debate about whether to retire or stay at her school working at a job she loves. She has soldiered on, even after a father of one of her students stalked her. He showed up at school every day for a week before the pandemic, wanting to get in, calling police on her. Because of a divorce, Woodhouse couldn’t legally talk to the father about her daughter, but he persisted anyway. Finally, one day as she was leaving in the dark with other staff and two students at the West Baltimore high school, he pulled up in a car with a gun.
One of the students standing at Woodhouse’s side shouted at the gunman, “Go ahead, shoot us!” Woodhouse said. Then everyone ran back into the school building. The school police officer climbed to the second floor to retrieve his gun from a locked box because officers aren’t allowed to carry guns in schools. The father was eventually arrested and the principal took several weeks off to make sure she was safe. She installed two different types of security cameras at her house. Then came the pandemic, but on one of the first days of in-person school, the father returned to again stand outside the school.
More than three-quarters of respondents had seen an increase in disruptive behavior by parents or relatives on their campus. And 64% said there had been violent incidents involving parents on their campus this school year. Seventy-three percent said parents threaten or attempt to attack staff at their school.
More than half of administrators said the bad behavior on the part of parents had made them consider leaving their jobs.
Renaissance Academy principal Tammatha Woodhouse has an ongoing internal debate about whether to retire or stay at her school working at a job she loves. She has soldiered on, even after a father of one of her students stalked her. He showed up at school every day for a week before the pandemic, wanting to get in, calling police on her. Because of a divorce, Woodhouse couldn’t legally talk to the father about her daughter, but he persisted anyway. Finally, one day as she was leaving in the dark with other staff and two students at the West Baltimore high school, he pulled up in a car with a gun.
One of the students standing at Woodhouse’s side shouted at the gunman, “Go ahead, shoot us!” Woodhouse said. Then everyone ran back into the school building. The school police officer climbed to the second floor to retrieve his gun from a locked box because officers aren’t allowed to carry guns in schools. The father was eventually arrested and the principal took several weeks off to make sure she was safe. She installed two different types of security cameras at her house. Then came the pandemic, but on one of the first days of in-person school, the father returned to again stand outside the school.