A Baltimore City mother is calling on someone, anyone, to fix city schools. And she says major changes need to happen now, or she’s leaving.

“There’s nothing up there for them. Nothing. They go there to get babysit for eight hours and come home,” said Nichelle Watkins, the mother of a Baltimore City student. “I feel like they don’t care. It’s not their children; they don’t care.”

Watkins is fed up with Baltimore City Public Schools.

Her son is in fourth grade at Johnston Square Elementary. For years, she says she’s been asking the school system to hold her son back to give him time to learn the material instead of pushing him through the grades.

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