Las Vegas City Wire

Las Vegas is dealing with increased violence in the city's schools. 

According to NPR, dealing with numerous days of classroom closures when there were several violent fights inside Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas caused teacher Cherish Morgan to grow exhausted and speak out about the situation. 

Further, she started to plan parent and student events to pressure the Clark County School District to crack down on evictions, demanding increased security and training for teachers. On the second day of the violent fights at the start of March, Morgan remembers standing on the sidewalk outside Desert Oasis High, nervously texting her 17-year-old daughter who was stuck inside.

"It's terrifying when you're out here and you're like, I know where she is, if I could just go grab her, she would be safer with me if I could just go get her," Morgan told NPR.

Other teachers were shocked by recent events at the school as well, including fight involving a student's father.

"Listen, our principal and our teachers should not be jumping on top of a parent to stop him from beating a student," another teacher at the school said, as reported by NPR. "There's no world where that is OK, there's just not."