The Baltimore Teachers Union held its first school safety task force meeting Friday.The group was formed to help come up with solutions to a recent spike in assaults by students on school staff. Friday's meeting was the first of a number of meetings the union hopes will help to make school safety a top priority in Baltimore City."It will be a hands-on working session, where all of us will take a very in-depth look at the Baltimore City code of conduct," said Marietta English, the union's president.The code of conduct is a school system document that some believe needs more teeth in order to deal with recent student-on-teacher assaults."What we want to do is see exactly what we can add to safety for the paraprofessionals, for the teachers and also for the students," said Darrick Johnson, a member of the task force.Baltimore City Council President Jack Young was among those hoping to add to the conversation on safety."There's got to be this balance and you have to have parents really engaged as well, because the school system, the union and elected officials can't do it," Young said.A Baltimore City parent teacher group said there's one issue the task force can't afford to overlook."There are many students who are afraid to go to school because the environment is not safe enough for them to go. Parents feel the same way," said Deborah Demery, president of the PTA Council of Baltimore City.Members of the newly formed school safety task force hope what's taking place now is the beginning of what's to come."You want to be safe, so that's why this meeting today is extremely important, and any subsequent meetings we have from this, they're extremely important," said Antoinette Ryan-Johnson, president of the City Union of Baltimore.The group has scheduled its second meeting for early next year.The school safety task force is drawing up a list of recommendations it plans to submit to the school district and the state Department of Education.