EVENTS. The violent events are under investigation. | Efe reference photo.
At least seven violent incidents involving students have been reported in or near DMV schools since Aug. 18, after the youths returned to classrooms after 18 months of confinement due to the pandemic. The situation worries the community in general, reported Telemundo 44 Thursday.
The last: Three stabbings were reported Wednesday in two separate incidents. The most serious was recorded at Annapolis High School in Anne Arundel County, MD, where two students were injured and seven others were arrested after a fight at school.
- George Arlotto, superintendent of Anne Arundel Public Schools, reported that investigators believe the fight originated from a dispute about a week ago. The Washington Post.
- Other events are the murder of a stabbed student on August 18; a shooting near a high school on September 21, two high school students injured on September 21, and a student assaulted two days later.
- In another incident reported Thursday, Vanessa Renderos’ 12-year-old son was beaten at Oxon Hill Middle School, MD. The Hispanic woman asked the authorities to take action.
What do they say? “I believe that if the pandemic has been a factor that is contributing to high rates of aggression in homes, but also outside,” said the therapist Gabriela Romo. He asked parents to take seriously if young people show mood swings, isolation, aggressiveness or suspect that they have bad friends.
- “We have to teach them with our own behavior how to handle conflict, anger, stress,” added Romo in an interview with Telemundo.
- “I am very scared, I don’t want my son to go to school and something worse will happen to him. Because I have found out about things, they wait for them in the bathrooms or outside the bus, ”said Renderos.
Main source of the news: Telemundo 44.
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