Ugh. I have an ongoing fear of my kids going missing. It all started when my son was in preschool and I found him playing with a bunch of teenagers at the skate park.
Just so you get the layout of the school. All kids enter and exit the school from door that lead out of each classroom. Only time they are in the hallways of the school is if they are going to the library or gym. So there's two main doors plus a door for each classroom, so about 30 doors total). Only the two main doors can be opened from the outside. The classroom doors have to be opened from the inside.
So today he started his first day of grade 1. The parking kind of sucks at the school so my youngest son and I left early to go pick him up. School was out at 11 and we got there at 10:40. There were no kids outside when we got there. About 5-10 minutes later a lady comes walking from the back of the school with my son. I was a bit confused. She was talking to him. He came running up with tears in his eyes. He says he was forgotten at the playground. The lady who brought him back knocked on the door to his classroom, a child opened the door and my son went in. I heard the teacher say "Austin, I was looking for you, you must come when the bell goes off!". Remember, I'd been there for 10 minutes already! And when I got there, there were no kids. The lady told me that she came to pick her child up from kindergarten and was keeping an eye on my son because he seemed so little to be by himself at the park.
So my son was dismissed from school and he was very very very quiet. We got home and I sat down to talk with him. Apparently ALL of the kids get kicked outside for recess. When the bell rang all of the kids were running back to their classrooms. My son said all the kids ran fast and he had to dodge between the older kids and by the time he got back to the front of the school where his classroom was, he couldn't remember which of the dozen doors on the front of the school was his. He knocked on one and nobody answered. Then he went around to the back of the school and knocked on his kindergarten door and nobody answered. He said he was so scared and didn't know what to do so he went and sat at the playground. Thankfully that lady was keeping an eye on him!!!!
I was anxious enough this morning before he even left for school, now I'm just petrified to send him tommorow.
Just so you get the layout of the school. All kids enter and exit the school from door that lead out of each classroom. Only time they are in the hallways of the school is if they are going to the library or gym. So there's two main doors plus a door for each classroom, so about 30 doors total). Only the two main doors can be opened from the outside. The classroom doors have to be opened from the inside.
So today he started his first day of grade 1. The parking kind of sucks at the school so my youngest son and I left early to go pick him up. School was out at 11 and we got there at 10:40. There were no kids outside when we got there. About 5-10 minutes later a lady comes walking from the back of the school with my son. I was a bit confused. She was talking to him. He came running up with tears in his eyes. He says he was forgotten at the playground. The lady who brought him back knocked on the door to his classroom, a child opened the door and my son went in. I heard the teacher say "Austin, I was looking for you, you must come when the bell goes off!". Remember, I'd been there for 10 minutes already! And when I got there, there were no kids. The lady told me that she came to pick her child up from kindergarten and was keeping an eye on my son because he seemed so little to be by himself at the park.
So my son was dismissed from school and he was very very very quiet. We got home and I sat down to talk with him. Apparently ALL of the kids get kicked outside for recess. When the bell rang all of the kids were running back to their classrooms. My son said all the kids ran fast and he had to dodge between the older kids and by the time he got back to the front of the school where his classroom was, he couldn't remember which of the dozen doors on the front of the school was his. He knocked on one and nobody answered. Then he went around to the back of the school and knocked on his kindergarten door and nobody answered. He said he was so scared and didn't know what to do so he went and sat at the playground. Thankfully that lady was keeping an eye on him!!!!
I was anxious enough this morning before he even left for school, now I'm just petrified to send him tommorow.
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