'It can't just be violent game of Whack-A-Mole': Akron teachers raise concerns over violence in schools Story:
AKRON, Ohio — Akron Public Schools teachers are raising concerns over violence in their buildings and criticizing the administration for not doing enough to protect students and educators.
This week at Akron Public Schools: A stabbing, fights, bomb threat and lockdowns "It can't just be a game of violent Whack-A-Mole. That's really what it's become," said Lisa Yanchek, a 6th grade teacher at Seiberling Community Learning Center. The schools activated lockdowns until the buildings were determined to be safe. Police said the injuries were not life-threatening. A student was arrested in the Firestone incident. The Buchtel stabbing remains under investigation, police said.
"I love my kids. They are amazing, but this administration has normalized abnormal behavior. They have found ways to justify the unjustifiable. I'm tired, mentally exhausted before I even go to work," Yanchek said. Some of the videos, which were provided to News 5 by the union, show two girls throwing punches outside of a Buchtel High School classroom as a teacher gets pushed around trying to break it up, a boy at East High School getting repeatedly hit, knocked to the ground and kicked in a hallway, and a female student at Hyre Middle School wailing on another girl and then dragging her across the gym floor by her hair.
"As they were starting to fight, they came by and pushed me to the ground," Toppin said."I went to the emergency room. I have a sprained back and sprained neck." One of the sticking points during the negotiations has been the definition of a physical assault against a teacher. Fowler Mack said she shares the concerns of educators and the community about school safety and doesn't want teachers"to have the extra emotional burdens of feeling unsafe in their working environments."As it relates to disciplinary action, Fowler Mack said an expulsion review committee, which is comprised of administrators and teachers, has been"working effectively."
After the gun was found at Litchfield Middle School, Fowler Mack announced the use of metal detectors was expanding from a random to a routine basis."We are adding some more current technology, so we will be upgrading the technology that we have around metal detectors," Fowler Mack said.
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