I think this case is very different from other ones. Since she is actively in the military, there must be more people involved in the investigation. What if they are aware someone else is involved and this person is currently deployed, so they are making it appear she isn’t cooperating...buying time to investigate and work with military.
On another note, I used to be a school administrator here in Florida. If students are enrolled in school or registered to start school, and they don’t show, they aren’t just dropped off the school roster. We have to have proof of where the child is now attending school, whether it’s home school, virtual school, private, or public. There are many funding reasons for this, but it is also a safeguard to ensure students are accounted for and in school. If Taylor attended VPK (free Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten), she would then be registered with the state and likely expected to be enrolled in some form of kindergarten. With all that said, if she did not enroll her in kindergarten it is possible that questions were being asked about her whereabouts. Even though kindergarten is not required, most students attend kindergarten and do not wait until first grade to start.