Weapons, quarrels and fear: School incidents in Eastern Baton Ruzhno Battan, Superfent calls for changes in policy – WAFB

Baton Rouge, La. (WAFB) – Three different incidents in schools in East Baton Rouge, two in the last 24 hours, raise questions and concerns about campus safety.

“I’m terrified. I’m really. I’m surprised. I’m really and I think it’s wrong, “Viola Anderson said.

Anderson’s two grandchildren go to Riveroaks elementary school, where two teachers watched, laughed and enrolled until one preschool hit another student. Superintendent Lamont Cole feels the same as Anderson.

“I’m completely terrible,” Cole said. “This type of behavior is not only wrong for our system, but also wrong for education and adults who decide to work in our system, not to do it properly, will have consequences.”

In the video you can see another pre -school try to intervene, but he was asked to withdraw.

“How dare we teach our children not to interfere when they see something wrong,” Cole said.

At the Schotlandville Secondary School, last night’s basketball game for girls ended with a quarrel after a parent in the opponent’s team and the coach of Scotland were confronted with a foul.

“I apologize to the family for having to experience this. We would expect our families and our coaches to behave a little more appropriate with a certain level of decor and class, as it is related to the game, “Cole said.

East Baton Ruzho schools follow the Jraa manual, which states that directors can decide whether to attend game security or not. Cole says he made sure this had been changed this morning. Security is now required in every game.

As Cole was dealing with this situation, another one jumped into Woodlawn High School. Just weeks after the gun was brought into the campus, another one crept through the wheelchair this morning.

“When he went to class, he talks about how he was able to do it and had an anonymous advice given to the law enforcement agencies and they went to him and managed to find where he said he was,” Cole said.

Woodlawn students are required to go through metal detectors. Cole says that since the student, 17-year-old Kevin Evans III, uses a wheelchair, the machine cannot say the difference between the gun and the chair.

Cole hopes with a new technology, which is delivered in numerous high schools in the area within the next two weeks, they will be able to find better weapons.

“Evolve is a specific AI system that is used to detect weapons that anyone can have on their faces through a digital AI camera. He finds on the camera and shows exactly where he is and where he can be found, “Cole said. “I could never predict that I would have a similar incident in the school system. It was not heard and a person would be in a wheelchair and would attach a device to the pillow in his place to go to the campus. “

Cole says all these incidents and easy access to weapons shows that it is time for some major changes in policy and protocol.

“We would ask parents to talk to their children to talk with their children, especially for teens, because we live in a changing society and with a change of things, we must be ready to change with him, so it is extremely pathetic,” Cole said S

Scaotlandville Middle Joshua Jackson’s chief coach of the Scotlandville Middle Basketball Team has just been put on paid administrative leave. Both Riveroaks Elementary teachers will be put on administrative leave after investigation. Woodlawn’s student was arrested and accused of illegally carrying a school -owned fire arms.

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