The constant rise in violence at a few St. Johns County schools has some parents on edge and concerned about their children’s safety.
Those concerns are fueled by the recent threats and fights at Bartram Trail High School, Creekside High School, Fruit Cove Middle School and Switzerland Point Middle School.
The mother said her 14-year-old daughter was “violently assaulted” in an unprovoked incident by an eighth-grade boy who was over 6 feet tall and weighed over 200 pounds.“I’m extremely worried, of course,” Anthony Kimba said. “Worried because my daughter is in the eighth grade. Somethings have been happening and it’s tough.”
These concerns at Fruit Cove Middle became public around the same time as concerns were raised at Switzerland Point Middle School following a student being violently attacked in a video that circulated online.One was at Bartram Trail High School where a threat was written on a bathroom wall on April 21st.In that case, a student was arrested. St.
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