INDIANAPOLIS — A spokesperson with Indianapolis Public Schools said close to 20 parents have already signed up to speak at Thursday's school board meeting.
Many of those parents have told 13News they have tough questions for the school board and IPS leaders.
This after a family filed a lawsuit, claiming a student with special needs was attacked by students George Washington Carver Montesorri School 87 while a teacher allegedly filmed and encouraged it.
Megan Kriebel has three children at School 87.
"I've always felt very cared for by our teachers and have always trusted the teachers that we've had," she said.
Now, though, Kriebel said she's seriously considering sending her children to another school and the recent lawsuit is only part of the reason.
Kriebel saw the video purporting to show a student allegedly attacking another, while the person filming, allegedly the student's teacher, captured it all on video.
Kriebel was horrified.
"It's a combination of grief and anger. I'm on that roller coaster," she said of the mixed emotions she's experienced since learning of the incident and seeing the video.
Kriebel's also angry because she said she sent an email to the district last fall, telling them they needed to take a closer look at School 87 and the number of teachers leaving.
Teachers, Kriebel said, that reached out to her once they left IPS.
"There were teachers and staff that had left that had said, 'This is why I left. I left because it was a toxic environment,'" Kriebel said they told her.
After she sent that email, Kriebel said the district sent her one back.
"It said, 'We take this so seriously. We're going to investigate this and of course, we're going to take this concern seriously,'" Kriebel recalled, but said there was never any follow-up.
That's why she questions the district's motives behind the email she and other parents got Sunday night telling them the principal and assistant principal at School 87 would not be in the building, so the district could interview teachers and parents about the school's climate.
"I do think the pressure's on because of how atrocious this video was that was released," said Kriebel.
IPS has said they followed the law when they alerted the Indiana Department of Child Services about the video and what was in it.
By law, anyone over 18 is required to report suspected abuse of a child.
According to IPS, the teacher in the video resigned before they could fire him. The district said it did not involve police because they'd already called DCS.
Kriebel thinks parents should have been notified, too.
"I think that was extreme negligence and I think they're on their best behavior because they see all these missteps and they're in the public eye," said Kriebel.
The prosecutor's office has now requested IMPD investigate.
Now, a Republican state lawmaker is talking about the laws she proposed last legislative session that could impact situations like the one IPS is dealing with now.
Last session, State Rep. Becky Cash, R-District 25, who represents portions of Boone and Hendricks counties, proposed two laws, one dealing with cameras in the classrooms of kids with severe disabilities.
The other proposed law would have increased the penalty for not reporting suspected child abuse.
"It's not anything I think any parents could even imagine could happen in a classroom," said Cash, talking about the video recently released by the attorney representing the family who has brought the lawsuit against IPS.
"I've watched the video several times and finally had to stop watching it," Cash said.
She remembers another video that came out last year, where a Brownsburg student with special needs was forced to eat his own vomit by a teacher, while other staff watched.
After that incident, Cash proposed two laws.
House Bill 1073 would have required districts to install cameras in seclusion areas and classrooms of students with the most severe disabilities. The bill made it out of the House, but never got a hearing in the Senate.
A second proposal, House Bill 1164, would have increased the penalty for not reporting child abuse. Right now, it's a misdemeanor. That bill only made it out of committee, but never got any further than that.
Cash believes this latest alleged incident shows there's a need for both kinds of proposed laws.
"I believe we can clearly see we need extra layers of protection in our schools," said Cash, who is up for re-election in November and said if she's re-elected, you can expect to see her propose similar bills again.