Updated Poll: Your opinion--has it changed?

[stmarysmead]

IMO, school started at it's regular time and there was some form of attendance taken when the last morning bell rang. That's me giving Skyline the benefit of the doubt, of course. I just can't see parents sending their children on their regularly scheduled bus rides to a school that won't be in session for an hour and a half. MOO

Well, that is the key question. When was attendance taken and WHEN were the children required to be there? Do we know?

I would assume that transportation ran at the usual time because of parents work schedules, etc. Working parents may have had no other option than to send their child on the bus. But other parents MAY have had leeway to arrive any time within that hour and a half to tour with their child.

So... did each class assemble FIRST for attendance at the usual time? Did Terri get Ky there exactly when class always started so he could be marked present with every other classmate...while all the parents stood and waited?

Have we heard that?Was every child required to be there at the usual time so that this attendance could be taken?

 

[stmarysmead]

Kyron disappeared moments before he was to enter his classroom.

A stranger might assume that at any instant.... a search for Kyron could begin...because he might assume that a second attendance was about to be taken. And that a FIRST attendance had made it CLEAR that Kyron SHOULD be in class.


He might assume that people might be calling and looking just MINUTES after this stranger had approached Kyron. That's a big risk....because the stranger might easily assume a "tight" protocol WAS in place.

If many believe that all schools are that well organized in protocol even on special days, why would a stranger not assume that?

But Terri, who was very familiar with that school, would know there had been no early attendance taken. She would know how things were done and not done there.

THAT combined with the "confusion" over the doctor's appointment would give Terri a feeling of time being on her side...much more than a stranger...who did NOT know school protocol...and therefore would feel that just moments before class started...was a very high risk time for a "snatch."

 

[gwenabob]

Finite? LOL. No, once the child is in school and checked in, they are the school's responsibility. She can't just walk away with him without violating the school's protocol. Now, she can choose to do that, but then she sets off a chain of events. The teacher "takes possession" (personally, I call it taking responsibility) with check in, which is what happens when the parent shows up at school with the child, or delivers the child to the bus driver.

Please tell me how, exactly, a teacher "takes responsibility" for a child at the point the child walks in the school's door. How exactly, in the above protocol would this work? Have all the children and parents line up at one entrance into the school--parents/children on the outside, teachers on the inside. As the parents and children walk through the door, one by one, they are marked as "present" on a checklist, then they stand in perfect lines behind the child's teacher. Then what? They all stand there until the first bell rings when all the perfect lines walk to their respective classrooms where the teacher takes another roll call and matches it with the initial front door check sheet? LOL.

I'm sorry, I just don't see how a teacher can know exactly who in her class has stepped foot inside the school each day, where they are at every second before the bell rings, even if they are still walking around with their parent! This makes no sense and would be IMPOSSIBLE to implement.

Terri was touring the exhibits with Kyron that morning. He never made it to the classroom at the beginning of the school day. He was never checked in. Therefore, there was no reason to expect Terri to sign him out at the office and produce a note to get Kyron out of class. She never let him get that far.

 

[Kimster]

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