Boy wandered off from day care

[Pandabear]

This could have easily turned out so differently. Thank god a good person found this little boy instead of someone who would have hurt him.

Full article:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/05/29/preschool_cruelty_arrest.html?cxntnid=amn053008e

Sara Poole was shocked when police called her Wednesday to say they'd found her 7-year-old son walking on the side of Pine Mountain Road in Kennesaw.

"I had no idea why he was there," she said. "He was supposed to be at day care."


A Kennesaw preschool employee, Barbara Ellen Alba, 65, was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony cruelty to children in the second degree, Kennesaw police spokesman Scott Luther said.

[Roamer]

From the article:
She said revocation usually does not happen in situations where a child leaves the center.

"Usually there has to be a history of serious rules violations," Hellwig said.



Isn't this serious enough for them????

[rockford2]

when my son was in daycare, he figured out how to unlock the gate, and he and a few kids wandered out front, near a very busy street. They were walking down the sidewalk when staff members FINALLY figured out that a few kids were missing.

And when I picked my son up, the director of the day care made it out that it was my son's fault for unlocking the gate. My child was 3 years old!! GRRRR

[grammybears]

A number of years ago a friend of mine was working graveyards. She had put her 3 y o in a daycare just through the back of their complex. This little darling would walk away from the school and go back home. She never woke her mom and just sat and watched tv. After about a week mom caught on to what she had been doing and asker her why she left the school. She told her school was boring. She asked the school how long her daughter had been leaving early and they said oh no she was here all day. She said I've got a news flash for you. She pulled her daughter out of the pre school post haste.

[annalyzer]

This could have easily turned out so differently. Thank god a good person found this little boy instead of someone who would have hurt him.

Full article:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/05/29/preschool_cruelty_arrest.html?cxntnid=amn053008e


Seven years old?

[packy]

I really wonder how well kids are watched in these groups. Remembering the days when I went on all the field trips with the school my kids went to and felt like I was the only one watching the kids every second that I could, while teachers were just ambling along taking in the sights. EEK.

My grandson was left at a punkin patch when he was 4yrs old and on a trip with his preschool.

[rockford2]

I really wonder how well kids are watched in these groups. Remembering the days when I went on all the field trips with the school my kids went to and felt like I was the only one watching the kids every second that I could, while teachers were just ambling along taking in the sights. EEK.

My grandson was left at a punkin patch when he was 4yrs old and on a trip with his preschool.

that's why I felt i needed to volunteer for all the school field trips. I knew I'd never relax while my son was gone.

They don't pay well at these daycare centers, and if SOME moms don't watch their own kids closely, then I highly think they won't bother to watch other kids quite closely.

I still remember when a friend of mine let her toddler run around a park while she and her husband talked with her co-workers, (company picnic) and several hours later, she went to look for her son and could not find him.
several hours later...


she eventually found him near the swings. :madranting94dp:

I always felt like GOD was watching kids that are left alone.

[packy]

I hear that, Rockford. That's why I went on all the trips too. It just takes a second for something to happen and yet many people are so relaxed with their kids. Not all though.