Matt Shelby is not superintendent he is a spokesman for PPS, they superintendent is a woman...
snip-Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby said two teachers saw Kyron with his stepmother and thought the two left school together.
He said it was common for parents to pick up kids this way, so no suspicions were raised.
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Thanks for that! I obviously need to go to bed because I read spokesman as superintendent. I've miscommunicated twice tonight, and although I was wrong about his title, it doesn't change what he said.