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.”
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.
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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.