I'm guessing she is saying the science fair event was chaperoned?
I don't know, but that kinda feels odd to me at an elementary school. I mean I would think that if these children needed extra supervision during this time, it would come from the school staff itself, not some volunteer chaperone. Hard to explain exactly.. but I feel like if someone volunteered to chaperone small children at a school.. I'd automatically wonder why a random person wants to be in charge of children... but maybe these chaperones were volunteering parents, which is different..?
I don't think i'm communicating this right, but seems to me that a school wouldn't open themselves up to such liability to rely on chaperones for an event that was happening during school hours... at the school. Maybe schools are different up there, though.
Or at least wouldn't the chaperones have to be parents known well to the teacher? If I was a teacher, I wouldn't let anyone I didn't have a background check and a brace character profile near the students... we all know how common any type of abuse/inappropriate behavior happens in opportunistic situations... and its always the people nobody would ever suspect... so I don't think I'd even let people I did know well chaperone small children. Maybe I'm hypervigilant and paranoid, though.
If there was a 'male chaperone' attending this event... of course somebody would know who that person is?
I always thought it was a bit odd that one of the school friends said they saw him near the gym that day.... the talent show was to take place in the gym later that day?