Security at pick up? - Page 3

[StephandOwen]

Originally Posted by mommy68

That's scary. As a parent I think I'd have a talk with my child then, especially if he goes to school all day without you around. I had to have that talk several times with my oldest child (regarding strangers) when he was real young because he's very quiet and listened to whatever anyone tells him to do and I constantly worried about him.

Yes, it is scary. So is the fact that ds has no understanding of "road safety" or "car safety" and will run into a road/parking lot without looking or stopping to think that maybe it's not a good idea. So is the fact that he runs out of our house at random times (even in the middle of the night when we think he's sleeping) and just takes off (we have alarms on every door now). So is the fact he has no concept of what's hot and what he can and cannot touch. At 5 years old he would still grab something hot off the stove or jump into a hot oven if given the chance. There are a lot of scary things in life, especially when you have a special needs child I have talked to him until I'm blue in the face, but it doesn't sink in with him. I'm usually met with gibberish echolalia, or a whole recital of a book or movie in response.

Originally Posted by AllyRae

Just stepping in for Steph (her DS is my nephew)--her son has PDD-NOS. My son has autism. Both of them would go with any random stranger, especially if the stranger used one of the "lines" to lure them in. We could talk to them about it day in and day out, and it will still take a LOT longer for our children to develop appropriate stranger danger awareness, impulse control, etc.

Yes, thank you.

This is exactly why he has an aide at school. It's also why I take him to his classroom every day and go to his classroom to pick him up everyday. Neither I nor the school trust him to not get hit by a car/bus, go with a random stranger or just plain run away. He is released by his teacher into my care. Once he was released to my partner but I had warned the teachers/aides that morning AND I was still in the building (in an ARC/IEP meeting with the school) AND they had previously seen DP so they knew him already. I will probably be doing this for several more years before he can walk in/out of the school building by himself.

[aniT]

Originally Posted by Flor

I've really never seen it any other way. I've worked at several schools and dss has attended 2 different ones. The bell rings and the kids go outside. I would like it is if it wasn't so, but that is how all the schools are around here.

Where at in Cali? Cause no K classes I have ever been around are like that. 1st and up yes.. but not K.

K students always wait with the teacher who releases them to the parent. I had two daughters in K in different counties in Cali and I baby sit a boy who I picked up every day. These were YEARS apart and all in different counties.

My daughter is in the 5th grade and they wait behind a fence with two yard duties. Mom pulls up, the kids leave.. they don't really check to make sure it is the parent or anything. Unless it is your kids teacher, they have no idea...