A 10-year-old boy picked up from his Chicago public school seven minutes late triggered a call from the school to the Department of Child and Family Services.
Fortunately, the school community has rallied around the mom and son, writing a letter to the CEO of the Chicago Public School system saying that, “We do not think it is reasonable to equate being late for pickup, in isolation, with child neglect.â€
Let’s narrow those neglect laws so they can’t be triggered by the blips inevitable in any family’s life — including a late pickup on the second day of in person school after a year of remote learning! The rest of the story is here, at Let Grow.
Sounds like the Chicago schools need to fire the idiot who thought this was reasonable. Not a person I’d want making ANY decisions about any child.