BROCKTON — Cheri Mazzoli, a secretary at Brockton High School, said a few weeks ago there was a fight down the hall from her office on the second floor of the school’s Red building.
She said she stepped outside her office to see where the commotion was coming from so she could call for help.
“The crowd came down the hall so quickly that I got swept up, not by the students fighting, but by the students that were rushing to watch and video the fight,” she said at Wednesday night’s special school committee meeting about security and safety inside Brockton High.
“I was pushed into a locker. I was then pushed into a wall and stepped on,” she continued. She said her boss quickly pulled her out of the crowd and into a nearby classroom.
“We are in chaos. We need help,” she said.
“Unfortunately, staff now feels it’s only a matter of time before someone dies in our hallway,” she said.
Mazzoli was one of many teachers, students and parents at Wednesday’s packed meeting who recounted scenes of violence and chaos in the hallways of BHS.