‘We are a house divided’: In her first address, Baltimore County’s new student board member calls for unity

The new student member of the Baltimore County school board, Roah Hassan, called during Tuesday night’s meeting for an end to division among the body’s members. Hassan, a rising senior at Perry Hall High School, was sworn in earlier this month. She used her first board meeting to express her thoughts on the needs of a school system that has over 111,000 students, and what she thinks the board could be doing to meet them. “We are a house divided,” Hassan, who is 16 years old, said Tuesday. “I have seen this board, and I have seen the tension and dysfunction that it entails. I have seen division in a space where we cannot afford to be divided.”