Dramatic Videos Secretly Recorded in EBR Schools By Teachers, Students Document Extent of Violence

No One Can View This Documentary Without Realizing We Have Problem

by Woody Jenkins, Editor
BATON ROUGE — Supporters of the proposed Southeast Baton Rouge Community School System have released a dramatic video that documents violence and other illegal activities in public schools such as Woodlawn, Broadmoor, and Tara High Schools.
The film is a compilation of videos secretly recorded by public school teachers and students, as well as local TV news reports.  Most of the videos were recorded in May 2013.
The teachers risked their jobs by recording the incidents and releasing the videos to the public.
Video clips include
•    The beating of a child on an East Baton Rouge Parish school bus. A parent was outraged by a video of the incident which showed her child being beaten senseless for minutes with no assistance. The bus failed to stop, and the incident was not reported to law enforcement as required by law.  The parent said, “I am furious and concerned that students are not safe in the school system.  This has to stop and now.”  The East Baton Rouge Parish school system responded that it was an isolated incident.
•    A roaring brawl at Woodlawn High School featuring a muscular student stripped to the waist who was menacing scores of other students on the school grounds.
•    Multiple fights going on in the Belaire High School gym with screaming and fists swinging.
•    A school bus driver who raped a Woodlawn High School special needs student.
•    A beating in the halls of Woodlawn High School.
•    A five-year-old child left abandoned on a parish school bus for two hours.  His mother said it was no accident
• A brawl at Tara High School, as students watched and a teacher tried to intervene.
•    The rape of a 14-year-old by an 18-year-old special needs student in the school auditorium.
•    The Broadmoor High lunchroom engulfed in violence and fighting.
•    Attacks in the hallway at Broadmoor High as a student was pounded in the head.
•    An attack on a student at Woodlawn High School.
•    Another attack at Woodlawn High School as a teacher unsuccessfully tried to intervene.
•    A violent altercation at South East Middle School that could not be contained by a Sheriff’s deputy who had to call for more units.  The incident involved a number of students and school staff. Multiple units were required to get control of the situation. Eight middle school stu-
dents were detained and handcuffed.
On May 3, 2013, there were six separate fights reported at Woodlawn High.
On May 13, 2013, a fight at South East Middle led to the report of a student with a gun.
The video says that for many of the students attending public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish, this is the reality.
In an interview last week, a school employee reported that many of the students at Woodlawn High are bused into Southeast Baton Rouge from failing schools taken over by the Recovery School District.
It is no wonder that the people of Southeast Baton Rouge want their own school system.  The East Baton Rouge Parish school system is out of control and cannot maintain order in the schools.
To watch the video, go to www.vimeo.com/67358394