Violence against city schoolchildren continues to bedevil D.C. parents, a top school monitor has reported.

Tonya Kinlow, D.C.’s school ombudsman, filed long-overdue activity reports for March, April and May last week. Of the hundreds of parents who have come to her for help negotiating the $1 billion school bureaucracy, nearly one out of every five is worried about the safety of his or her children, Kinlow found.

Worse, Kinlow wrote, school officials have often blamed the victims. 

“For example, if the solution involves moving one student out of a classroom, the school moves the victim, not the perpetrator,” Kinlow wrote in her March report. “School staff often ignores bullying until the incidents escalate to include acts of physical abuse.”

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The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to track violence against their students. Students in schools plagued by chronic violence have the right to transfer to safer schools.

Mayor Adrian Fenty and his schools chancellor, Michelle Rhee, have promised to make curbing school violence a top priority. Kinlow’s reports suggest that the promises haven’t translated into action.

Rhee’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Calloway, declined comment for this story. She also refused to provide federally mandated statistics on school violence.

Kinlow’s report corroborates parents such as Dawn Henderson, 36, of Glover Park. In January, her daughter Kaitlin, 17, was attacked in the hallways at Wilson High School in Tenleytown. Henderson pulled the girl out of school for more than a month.

“I’ve been telling them since September how unsafe things were,” Henderson said. “School officials had no idea what was going on.

“There were times they locked down the schools because there were gang members there,” Henderson added. “But Kaitlin was sitting in the locked classrooms with the gang members.”

Rhee and her representatives initially downplayed reports of violence at Wilson. But eventually, she put the school on lockdown and confined students to their cafeteria. The students revolted and led a walkout.

“I sent e-mails every other day for months,” Henderson told The Examiner. “I got nothing.”