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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bump. Any updates?[/quote]

That's pretty terrifying. It suggests that the procedures often aren't followed, but that other times they got lucky and the kids were all where they were supposed to be. If you have bad procedures, you can make changes to the procedures. If you have good procedures but even the head of the school ignores them -- never mind what the teachers do -- that is really scary.[/quote]
Exactly.[/quote]

[b]It shows that the procedures were flawed/had holes in them. In particular, depending on a single person as the ultimate safeguard against something terrible like this happening doesn't work. Because people are imperfect and make mistakes.[/b] [/quote]

This is exactly right.  When this happened the first time, the big solution was (in addition to counting the kids 3 times) was that Randy was to accompany the kids on every outing to the park.  Thus, rather than train the existing staff on adhering to procedures (and/or having more experienced staff and/or more staff go on these outings), she became the solution.   The whole thing rested on her, and everyone makes mistakes.  She made a mistake and there weren't any other safeguards in place.[/quote]

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