Jules71
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I just heard about this last night on the news. Horrible! I haven't caught up with all the posts yet, but wanted to say it is not unusual that he would not be walked to class. I have a second grader and normal protocol is to drive up along the curb at the school and drop them off - they walk to class on their own. During Kindergarten, I parked and walked him to class and picked him up at the classroom door. First grade, I pulled up along the curb - watched him walk to his class (I could see just to the corner where his classroom door was). Sometime during the school year, I agreed he could walk to the flag pole to be picked up at the curb instead of me parking and picking him up at his classroom door. Now all of second grade - he has walked to/from his class (around the back of the school - out of my site). Kids his age even walk to/from school which is about a mile. Makes me sick to my stomach thinking about what could happen. I have had this same fear dropping him off at the curb and watching him walk out of my sight - hoping to God nothing happened to him along the way. I am just super paranoid.
In our school, we have an automated attendance system and we are notified within a very short amount of time if the child is not in class. One time I dropped him off very close to the bell ringing and he actually did not make it to class before the classroom door was shut and locked, so he had to walk back around to the front of the school and go in the main doors to the office. They gave him a pass and he went to class. Well in the meantime he was not in class when they took roll so I got the call that he was absent. I FREAKED OUT! I called the school right away and they put me on hold while they called the class and talked to the teacher who confirmed he was in fact there.
It sounds like this boy's step mom went to school with him in the morning (instead of him getting on the bus as usual) so she could go to the science fair with him. (We often have book fairs and things before and after school.) After they viewed the exhibits, it sounds like he turned down the hall toward class and she left thru the front doors. This is exactly what I would have done if it was my son at his school. She should have then gotten a call if he was not in class. They would take roll in class, not in the science fair.
I cannot imagine thinking your child is at school in class all day only to find out they are missing!! I have often thought schools should have better systems in place for keeping track of their students AND visitors. I also don't like at my son's school where they have to walk to their classes and line up at the outside door of their class. We have a wooded area right next to one side of our school. They should all enter thru the front doors. I don't know. I think this kind of thing happening is actually rare enough that they don't think they need to lock them down and keep that much tabs on them. It scares me.
Do we know for sure he was seen at the science fair with his step mom - or is it just her account of that?
In our school, we have an automated attendance system and we are notified within a very short amount of time if the child is not in class. One time I dropped him off very close to the bell ringing and he actually did not make it to class before the classroom door was shut and locked, so he had to walk back around to the front of the school and go in the main doors to the office. They gave him a pass and he went to class. Well in the meantime he was not in class when they took roll so I got the call that he was absent. I FREAKED OUT! I called the school right away and they put me on hold while they called the class and talked to the teacher who confirmed he was in fact there.
It sounds like this boy's step mom went to school with him in the morning (instead of him getting on the bus as usual) so she could go to the science fair with him. (We often have book fairs and things before and after school.) After they viewed the exhibits, it sounds like he turned down the hall toward class and she left thru the front doors. This is exactly what I would have done if it was my son at his school. She should have then gotten a call if he was not in class. They would take roll in class, not in the science fair.
I cannot imagine thinking your child is at school in class all day only to find out they are missing!! I have often thought schools should have better systems in place for keeping track of their students AND visitors. I also don't like at my son's school where they have to walk to their classes and line up at the outside door of their class. We have a wooded area right next to one side of our school. They should all enter thru the front doors. I don't know. I think this kind of thing happening is actually rare enough that they don't think they need to lock them down and keep that much tabs on them. It scares me.
Do we know for sure he was seen at the science fair with his step mom - or is it just her account of that?
