Oh my freaking A. What the Hell kind of elementary school lets a 7 year old (who has only been attending the school for one week) walk home by herself? WTF? Oh, I'm sorry, not by herself. They let her walk home with a third grader. I say again, WTF?
We only live two blocks from Punky's school now, so MacGyver walks her to school and picks her up at the end of the day. Except yesterday when he got there, she. wasn't. there. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Can you imagine? I would've effing lost it. Well, no. I wouldn't have at that point. I'm pretty good under extreme stress, but I can tell you that my mind would've been in all the worst places in that moment, and I would've been taking some serious actions. MacGyver asked the adults in charge where she was. No one had an effing clue. Well, aren't you supposed to be watching her!?!?!
Apparently, they did not feel they needed to watch her. Contrary to what we had originally been told, the kids aren't held until a responsible party picks them up. The kids are just cut loose to do as they please unless you place them on a special list requiring them to be released only to a responsible party. I think it bears repeating:
We only live two blocks from Punky's school now, so MacGyver walks her to school and picks her up at the end of the day. Except yesterday when he got there, she. wasn't. there. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Can you imagine? I would've effing lost it. Well, no. I wouldn't have at that point. I'm pretty good under extreme stress, but I can tell you that my mind would've been in all the worst places in that moment, and I would've been taking some serious actions. MacGyver asked the adults in charge where she was. No one had an effing clue. Well, aren't you supposed to be watching her!?!?!
Apparently, they did not feel they needed to watch her. Contrary to what we had originally been told, the kids aren't held until a responsible party picks them up. The kids are just cut loose to do as they please unless you place them on a special list requiring them to be released only to a responsible party. I think it bears repeating:
W. T. F?!?
Maybe I'm just clueless as to how things work with elementary schools these days, but I would never run a school that way! Holy F! THAT is the point where I would've lost my effing mind on some people. YOU LET MY 7 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL LEAVE THE SCHOOL UNSUPERVISED!?!
MacGyver rushed home to find Punky waiting, safely (Thank the Universe and any God, Goddess, or force you can think of), where it was explained that - apparently - a crossing gaurd (from what I can tell from the way Punky tells it) sent her with a third grader, and that third grader's mom joined that at some point after they had actually left the school.
I can't even. I don't know what to say. Needless to say, Punky is on the "Special List" of kids who aren't allowed to be tossed out on the sidewalk to figure out their own way home, and, more importantly, it has been emphasised to her that she is NOT to leave the school unless MacGyver or I am there to pick her up (or, just in case, our friend Java).
But, seriously! Is this normal? Do schools really do this? I'm not talking Jr. High. I'm not even talking about kids who are a little older who have permission to walk home in groups. I'm talking about single little first graders just being cut loose with no accounting for them whatsoever. UGH!!!
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