A 12-year-old boy is recovering after police say an 11-year-old girl stabbed him inside a Bronx school Monday.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a 911 call reporting an assault just after 11 a.m. at P.S.\/I.S. 218 on Gerard Avenue in the Concourse neighborhood, according to the NYPD. Police said the boy was found with a stab wound to his left arm and was taken to a hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Sources said the 11-year-old girl is in custody and that the two children had a prior dispute.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
A 12-year-old boy was stabbed in the arm inside P.S.\/I.S. 218 in the Bronx and is in stable condition
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An 11-year-old girl is in custody and sources say the two had a prior dispute
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Some parents criticized the school\u2019s communication and called for more security
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Elected officials say counseling and mental health support will be provided as the investigation continues<\/p>\n
\u201cA stabbing? Come on. A 12-year-old, an 11-year-old involved. It\u2019s crazy,\u201d said Alejandra Bonilla, who has two children enrolled at the school.<\/p>\n
Bonilla and other parents questioned how the school communicated about the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to find out from our kids? We have to find out from social media? We have to find out from the news and not the school?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
About 800 students in kindergarten through eighth grade attend the school. The building does not have metal detectors but has a security guard, according to parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s only one security for the entire building so, if we had more security patrolling the hallways or wherever this happened, this could\u2019ve been avoided. This could\u2019ve been stopped right away,\u201d Bonilla said.<\/p>\n
Local elected officials said they are taking the incident seriously but differed on whether additional security is the answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think, instead of us thinking how do we get more school safety, we should think how we get more counselors? This doesn\u2019t sound like if there was more school safety, the kids would\u2019ve been safer. This sounds like an incident that could\u2019ve been rectified if this young person had mental health services,\u201d said Bronx Councilwoman Althea Stevens.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we can have more school safety agents, maybe we can employ more security measures. Those are options that I do believe should remain on the table. But what I don\u2019t want is to scare the 218 community and make them think that their children\u2019s school is unsafe because of this,\u201d said Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson.<\/p>\n
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Education said, \u201cThis act of violence is unacceptable and deeply concerning… We will be working closely with the school community to ensure all necessary supports are provided.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sources said counseling and mental health support will be available to students and staff as the school addresses the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy is recovering after police say an 11-year-old girl stabbed him inside a Bronx school Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,9,24,12,63,308,332,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-150884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-rebecca-greenberg","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}