It Happened Again. 6 Month Old Death

[sahm1225]

The schools in our town are now calling parents if your child doesn't show up for school by 9:00. It is a policy and they have had to put it in place because so many kids are being absent from school.

Three weeks into the school year one elementary school had already had over 120+ absences!

I guess my point is if you don't call your child in absent the school is having to take it upon themselves to find out where the kids are. I guess if we are only chiecking on one or two that is much better then the amount a school would be dealing with.

Out school calls with a recorded message and the message is at about 1pm. Plus, schools have a secretary that does that. It's not like every teacher is expected to stop teaching, but continue to supervise the children while calling the parents. Even if your example of the school calling, it shows that parents are not being resoponsible and yet again the responsibility is being shifted elsewhere. Your child is your responsibility, not everyone else's.

[Lucy]

http://www.katu.com/news/investigators/Father-of-baby-who-died-after-left-in-car-It-was-an-accident-279627632.html

Someone had mentioned wanting to see an updated news article on this story. Dad says it was an accident. (Well of course... what else would he say?) They might not press charges. There have been other cases as well where they did not press charges.

[Country Kids]

Out school calls with a recorded message and the message is at about 1pm. Plus, schools have a secretary that does that. It's not like every teacher is expected to stop teaching, but continue to supervise the children while calling the parents. Even if your example of the school calling, it shows that parents are not being resoponsible and yet again the responsibility is being shifted elsewhere. Your child is your responsibility, not everyone else's.

Our elementary secretary does do it but thats not all she does! She still has all her responsibilities to still do while trying to do this. If kids do come into the office and have to sit/sick/call home/whatever, she is trying to supervise them while doing the calling also. Its not like she calls and has no other duties to do.

The middle school has actually had to bring in volunteers to do the calling because the secretaries once again have way to much stuff to do, do be calling individual parents.

Some of the teachers are making calls though after school about the kids being absent. My niece was one of these teachers. She was having to make calls daily to parents because kids were not in school. Reasons-kids/parents not wanting to get up/parent sick, couldn't bring child to school/bad home life/etc. Rarely were the children actually sick.

Alot of parents in our area take their children to school, so if the parent is sick or for some reason can't take the child to school, the child misses. Sad situation but I've seen it many times with some of my school agers.

[KiddieCahoots]

Hey! Why was that baby going to daycare after a doctor appointment anyway?
At 6months they get vaccinations.
For all we know the baby could've died from an allergic reaction to the vaccinations.