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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm personally afraid of someone calling CPS on us.

I had to fight the school to let my 9.5 year old 4th grader walk home alone. There's a crossing guard and we live 1/5 mile from school (we can see the school from our front door!). This is a quiet neighborhood with sidewalks. Even still, one day last month, the school called me and said my kid was in their office and needed picked up. They hadn't let her walk home and prevented her from doing so. It's insane. I'm still so angry at the administrator for that.

Something that worries me is all the parents who are constantly tracking their kids on their iphones or watches. I think it's mental illness on the parent's part. Half the time that they're checking, kids are in school. Do they think they're abducted from school in the middle of the day?[/quote]

This same thing happened to me a few years ago. I had given my 9 y/o permission to walk home one block from school. Signed all the forms and waivers etc. And then one afternoon I got a call because the security guard wouldn’t let her leave despite having permission. When I got there to get her, the security guard said in front of my DD that a girl should not be walking around alone when it is getting dark. It was December and it was 4:45 pm.

I have also had to fight to get permission to even sign dismissal waivers for my kids when my kids were a little under the age cutoff. One activity literally wouldn’t let me leave to go to the grocery store down the street while my 10 year old was doing the activity. I had to sign a waiver for that.

People worry about CPS. Schools and activities worry about liability. It’s so overblown. Often times I feel like the question of whether the kid can handle doing X is not even discussed or considered. It’s the appearance of things. It’s safety theater. And our kids suffer as a result. [/quote]

That’s ridiculous and I’m so sorry! My kids public ES releases grades 2-5 out the front door without needing them to have anyone there to get them. So starting at age 7. They only require an adult there for K and 1st who exit out a different door. And even those kids can be picked up by an older grade sibling to walk home if the parents sign a form. [/quote]

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This is my experience as well!

How would the school even know how kids get home?[/quote]

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