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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This kid absolutely left school on purpose.  I'd want to know if staff knew and followed him or they were neglectful in his care if they didn't notice he slipped out.[/quote]
Schools aren't built like prisons. Staff can do their best and kids can still slip away.

Kids with a history of eloping are watched much more closely, but even then, it takes full time 1:1 para support to do it, following the kid everywhere - including to (but not necessarily in) the bathroom. I've had that job with several kids over the years.[/quote]

And, how many kids without sn do you know who have eloped?[/quote]

PPs aren’t suggesting that all SN kids elope rather most children that elope have SN.[/quote]

I'm a PP from much earlier in this discussion, and I noted that I have a SN child who does not elope, but that some of his classmates have done. This was particularly true in the early grades. If a child like mine comes into a mainstream elementary school, and hasn't received support through PEP, Infants and Toddlers, or other Early Intervention services, the school is literally starting from scratch in terms of creating an IEP and getting appropriate staffing.

I'm not commenting on this particular case, as I don't even know whether the child in this story has SN, but just about the overall situation that schools find themselves in when it comes to kindergarten. It's really hard to get an extra aide mid-year, or to reconfigure classes or staffing so that kids can get the supervision they need. There are things MCPS could do about this, including making it easier to get more staff mid-year, as well as intensive outreach to preK families to begin identifying kids who should be getting EI services and who should probably enter Kindergarten with an IEP rather than waiting most of the school year to have one drawn up.

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