Students at Baltimore School for the Arts Share Stories of Sexual Harassment and Assault

4/5/21

Ruth Dawit and Sydney Lane-Ryer

There are places at the Baltimore School for the Arts that female students know can be dangerous.

“The back stairwell. The elevator. So many people squeeze in, you can get lost in there. Some guy will touch you and the others won’t know,” said Sydney Lane-Ryer, a 16-year-old junior at the visual and performing arts-oriented magnet school in Mount Vernon.

Stories of female students being sexually harassed, groped, bullied and assaulted by male classmates have piled up with alarming speed on a recently created Instagram account, survivorsofbsa.

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