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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Separate from the police I can’t believe people are focusing on the five year old leaving rather than the grown adults not supervising him well enough (this making it possible for all of this to happen.) if this happened with your child snd a babysitter would you be focused on the “misbehavior” or the appalling incompetence of the adult? [/quote]

By age 5, my kids were playing on unfenced playgrounds, or playgrounds with gaps in fencing (this includes every public school playground in my area) without me watching them every second, with me, with babysitters, and at school.  They were never there alone.  There was always an adult close enough to hear them if they called for help, but that adult might be monitoring other children.  If my kid walked off the playground while I was pushing his toddler sibling in the swing, I would absolutely have considered that "misbehavior".

Public school playgrounds are supervised, at best, with an adult per class.  More likely you've got 2 adults with 100 kindergarteners.  It's easy to imagine a kid walking off a playground, an adult seeing him, heading towards him, but he's turned a corner before the adult gets to him.  That's probably what happened here, given that they noticed, called police, and provided a description that allowed a police officer to find him before the kid got 1/4 mile.

That's not appalling incompetence on the part of adults.  If you think that kindergarteners should be in fenced playgrounds, then advocate for that.  Or advocate for different staffing ratios.  But recognize that with current (non-covid) staff ratios and playground set ups, this can happen.  [/quote]

You’re nuts. Yes it’s possible there is a behavioral or other issue with this child but he is FIVE and the adults failed completely. By your logic a preschool teacher could have an open bottle of antifreeze out and if a child drank it it would be primarily a behavior issue. That’s crazy and you are clearly in the minority. [/quote]

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