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[quote=Anonymous]OP with an update.

Principal called me this morning and thanked me for making him aware of the situation. He opened by acknowledging students today have to deal with fears of shootings/school violence we never did growing up. He empathized with DD’s concern seeing the student—this was a middle school event for a specific club (Larla was never a participant) so principal understood how students would have been concerned given what they’d heard about threats.  He confirmed students should speak up and said I should let DD know she had the right impulse, but of course ideally to a school employee!

Principal let me know he had some things to review re: supervision at and access to school events and parent and sibling pickup of students. Parent would not have been in a position to confront a student in this manner had procedure been followed, so he saw that as a security issue to address. He was also concerned with outlining to parent how she can bring up concerns she has about the school or students..

I felt very reassured by his call.

To answer questions/comments from  PPs:

High schooler wasn’t an official chaperone, but a helper. High schoolers earn service hours doing this and it’s very common in our district (e.g. high schoolers do tutoring and homework club, high school sports teams run parents night out events with a coach present, they teach winter basketball, afterschool field hockey etc. All with at least one school employee present, but yes the elementary and middle schoolers turn to high schoolers often).

We are no longer in the DC area; we left a big district there for what we affectionately call flyover country. The entire district is 1500 students with all 3 schools within a stone’s throw of each other on one campus. So it makes sense that this level of interaction with HS students is not typical in DC metro. And of course the size of our town and district also affects how much anonymity and privacy people have (or don’t have).

To the poster who would have been annoyed to hear from me and livid to think I hoped for a prompt response, I’m relieved our school principal felt otherwise![/quote]

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