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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school doesn't call and I think it's kind of scary -what if I dropped off DC and then they weren't in class?  No one would know they had disappeared.[/quote]

You don't notify the school when your young child will be out!?!?

I find that weird.....[/quote]

You misread the post.  The scenario that's scary is if you drop off DC, let's say on the playground, and somehow the child doesn't make it to class.  For example, someone lures the child away from the playground and abducts the child.

Actual scenarios:

DC is put on school bus.  School bus driver and assistant forget to drop the child off and child spends four hours locked in bus.  Child survives.

Mom and dad switch off on drop-off of toddler at nursery school.  Child falls asleep, and mom forgets to drop off.  Child spends morning in car.  Child does not survive.

Mom watches as elementary school walks alone to school bus stop two blocks from home.  Child does not get on school bus.  Mom does not realize that child missed bus until child fails to come home from school.  Child abducted, presumed dead.

In each case, a prompt phone call, text message or email from the school to parents at home, work, cell, etc. requesting that they confirm the child's absence from school might have changed the outcome.
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