Teacher ‘petrified’ after being attacked by student

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Baltimore educator says she cannot bring herself to return to work now

Six days after she was sucker punched and beaten in her own Baltimore classroom, high school art teacher Jolita Berry still finds it almost impossible to watch the MySpace video of the attack. And she can’t make herself go back to work.

“I am petrified to go back to that particular building,” Berry told TODAY’s Matt Lauer on Thursday in New York. “I miss the good students that I have. I love them dearly, but I can’t do it.”

The attack happened last Friday morning in Berry’s classroom in Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore. One of the girls in the class approached the 30-year-old teacher and got nose-to-nose with her and threatened her.

I'm telling you from experience of running a 100+ men construction site...these are the same kids that become adults and drive us crazy!

Link to video...today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24047456/

Stay safe.