Woodlawn High

Baltimore County police say they are investigating two reported rapes of high school students -- a Woodlawn High girl who said she was assaulted last week after leaving the campus with two other students during school hours last week, the other a girl who reported being attacked yesterday in a restroom at Overlea High. The Woodlawn girl was found lying in an alley in the 1500 block of Clairidge Road in western Baltimore County at 2:48 p.m. Oct. 13, said Officer Shawn Vinson, a police spokesman.

Baltimore County police say they are investigating a Woodlawn High School students allegation that she was raped after she left the campus with two other students during school hours last week. The girl was found lying in an alley in the 1500 block of Clairidge Road in western Baltimore County at 2:48 p.m. last Wednesday, said Officer Shawn Vinson, a Police Department spokesman. She was taken to St. Agnes HealthCare. The next day, she told police she had been raped. The girl left Woodlawn's campus with two male students, and the trio went to a house and drank alcoholic beverages, Vinson said.

Daric V. Jackson is greeting students in the lobby of Woodlawn High when a mother and daughter approach. "She had behavioral issues last year, but not this year because you're here," says the mother, Carrie Tucker, as she introduces herself and her daughter, LaTevia Carroll, to the new principal. "I heard you're not going to take anything from anyone. I heard you are the man to get the job done." That's just what Jackson wants to hear as he embarks on one of the toughest assignments in the Baltimore County school district.

In moves affecting nearly all of its schools, the Baltimore County school board appointed new principals for 27 schools and assistant principals at more than 40 at a meeting last night. This was the second consecutive year that Superintendent Joe A. Hairston has made significant changes in the leadership of the system's 163 schools. But some of the decisions were not of his making. The General Assembly did not renew Maryland's program to rehire retired principals and teachers at struggling schools because lawmakers could not decide how to address concerns about misuse.

The mother arrested after Thursday's melee at Woodlawn High School said yesterday that she was trying to prevent a fight involving her daughter when she burst into the building during an anger management assembly. Sharod Bailey, 33, is charged with disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, trespassing on school property and disrupting school activities. Her daughter, 15-year-old Tearra High, is charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault. The mother and daughter said they had been escorted out of the auditorium by the time fights had broken out among the audience of 750 ninth-graders, who had gathered to learn about ways to peacefully resolve conflict.

Woodlawn High School ninth-graders who gathered yesterday for an assembly on anger management instead got an up-close lesson in violence, when a shoving match grew into a melee that led to two arrests - including one student's mother - and 11 suspensions. As students on stage acted out peaceful ways to resolve conflict, one student's mother confronted a group of girls who had been bothering her child, authorities said. Screaming quickly escalated into pushing and hitting, and school officials dialed 911 as the crowd of 750 students erupted into "chaos," said Woodlawn Principal C. Anthony Thompson.

Eve Kristine Belfoure, a survivor of Nazi labor camps who was a language teacher at Woodlawn High School for 25 years, died Friday of heart failure at Northwest Hospital Center in Randallstown. The Woodlawn resident was 79. "She had seen the absolute worst in life, people executed in front of her eyes," said her son, Charles Belfoure of Westminster. "But she had an amazingly cheerful disposition and outlook on life." Born in Krakow, Poland, the former Eve Vetulani was forced to work in labor camps after the Nazi occupation of her country in 1939.

A Woodlawn High School teacher was arrested and charged yesterday with having a sexual relationship with a student who was on a soccer team he coached at the school, police said. Benjamin Rapheal, 44, of the first block of Blackfoot Court in Middle River is facing two counts of child abuse and one count of perverted practice. He was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $75,000 bail. Police said the 16-year-old female student told them that her sexual relationship with Rapheal started in October after he drove her from a school activity to his house.

Nearly a dozen people were arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer and disorderly conduct at a Woodlawn High School fashion show during the weekend, Baltimore County police said yesterday. The officer was not seriously hurt during two fights outside the school Saturday, where students were holding a fashion and talent show, according to police reports. In the first fight, about 7:40 p.m., two juveniles and one adult - Kevin Parker, 18, of the 3000 block of Harlem Ave. in West Baltimore - were charged with disorderly conduct and second-degree assault, police said.

When Ezio Ross was the varsity quarterback for his Miami high school in the early 1970s, he played for the championship one year before 40,000 fans. It's not surprising then that Ross, whose son is the Woodlawn High School varsity quarterback, was more than a little disappointed when only a handful of spectators would turn out to see the Woodlawn High football team play. "To come up to Maryland and see 20, 30 people in the stadium, ... it was ... interesting," said Ross, a regional vice president for Primerica Financial Services.