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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m trying to put myself in their shoes. So the gist of it, if my 5 1/2 year old eloped from school, and school employees were unable to stop him at the school property line and had to call the police. Then if it took officers 50 minutes and a bunch of “your mom is going to spank you when you get home” and a ride in the cruiser back to school...

I’d be angry... not at the school or police officers but at my child. I can’t imagine ever thinking I was entitled to money because of this. Without seeing the video, I may have a different opinion but I’m not going to take the lawyer’s play by play.[/quote]

Its not appropriate for a police officer to say mom will spank you as that's a parenting choice but I would fully expect a police office to pick up a child and put them in a car to return them to school   I would assume the child was continuing to act up with price but we don't know until we saw the video.  My big concern is what happened at school to make this child leave?  Was the child bullied?  Threatened? Special needs?  Kids don't typically elope except in SN or feeling upset or threatened. [/quote]

Elopement happens more often than you might think, and that is especially true in kindergarten, for both typically developing kids who just don't like the transition to school, and for kids with special needs who are eventually going to need a different type of environment or a classroom with more staffing. I do not know this family, and I don't know their child, but I can tell you as a general rule that kindergarten is the first interaction most kids have with public education, and it can take until at least January to identify and document kids who are going to need an environment with more supervision.

None of that is to excuse any of what happened, but I'm pushing back on the specific allegation that kids don't elope except in super unique circumstances. That's not true. Which is why the kindergarten and first grade classes need more staffing, but that appears to be impossible right now with budget cuts. [/quote]

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