A former Baltimore City Schools cafeteria worker is speaking out about an incident from November 2018 that was caught on video and went viral. She was working at National Academy Foundation Middle High School in east Baltimore, when she was attacked and severely injured by a female student. At the time, it was reported the fight broke out over a carton of milk. The worker suffered injuries to her head and a broken wrist. Nearly three years later, the scars remain.
“I still have pain in my hand. I still can’t make a complete fist. I just am learning how to write again,” the former cafeteria worker told Project Baltimore. “I suffer from headaches. I had to go to surgery and go to therapy. I was going through — couldn’t sleep, anxiety attacks, but it’s just stressful.”
The victim, who asked not to be identified, says school leaders could have prevented what happened to her but didn’t.
“I never really expected that to happen. And it was shocking to me that that went on, that I got hurt,” she said.
The former employee tells Fox45 News, she was not the first person the student attacked. Yet, that student remained in the school. She says, it wasn’t until that same student attacked another employee, a nurse, that administrators removed her from National Academy Foundation.
“I don’t understand how it can happen over and over again with the same students,” she said. “You put her in the public school, and this is how she act, and this is how other kids think it’s okay to act.”
That’s all those animals want to do is fight. She’s on her own.
It happens in Wicomico County all the time. They just move the student to another school.