After another alleged assault of an employee by students at a Baltimore school, the Baltimore Teachers Union plans to form its own task force to look at the school district’s code of conduct, in hopes of implementing a remedy in the new year.
The union put out a statement today, one day after video surfaced of students appearing to beat up a cafeteria worker at National Academy Foundation School, roughly a block west of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
“It is inexcusable that teachers and paraprofessionals, school administration and staff keep being assaulted by students who are in desperate need of help,” said BTU president Marietta English in a statement. “Our school workers need provisions in place to help protect them when things like this happen.”
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