5 y/o exits daycare to head to Hooters!

Oh man  . . . . they sure start early these days !! 

Must have been SOME wing craving the little guy had !!!  Seriously though, I'm glad he wasn't hurt !

Deb W.

Wow.  That's enough to give the parents nightmares.  It sounds to me like that daycare center could use either a few more staff members or a few less kids.

Joyce

On his first day of kindergarten my mom and his teacher had to unwrap my youngest brother from around my mom's neck.  Later he just decided to go home and did so.  The teacher couldn't leave a roomful of 5-year-olds to chase a single child running at full speed.  Luckily we lived less than a block from the school.

My brother was promptly returned to his classroom and he never did that again. 

The five-year-old in the story didn't just "wander" away.  He deliberately ran away.  Once a child is old enough and large enough to open doors that is hard to prevent unless every door has either a secure lock, a guard, or an alarm.

In this case it sounds like an alarm wouldn't have helped a whole lot.  The child decided he wanted to roam instead of going home.  He was confident enough to cross streets and to buy a drink.

The daycare needs to review their procedures - children go in pairs to the restrooms?  However, the parents also need to punish the child and let him know in no uncertain terms that the adventure should not be repeated.

Check out this post about the lengths that Glenmar had to go to to keep her 18-24 month son corralled.  The child (dressed only in a superman cape) once wound up in a field across the road demanding milk from a steer at 5:30 am.

http://community.dog.com/forums/p/21259/285539.aspx#285539

Okay update on this. The center has been closed...and when you read how many places this boy wandered you might understand why LOL. The timeline is amazing...this kid is a travelin man! And apparently a bit of a petty pilferer, to boot LOL.

ARTICLE

I can see why they closed the place down.  That little dude was gone for quite awhile if he had time to visit all those places.  Did nobody at the center think to go looking for him?

Joyce

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Did nobody at the center think to go looking for him?

if they were understaffed who knows what might've happened to the other kids if they had....seems like they just flat out didn't have enough folks there minding the kiddos perhaps? I am glad the boy was fine, the bit about the gum and root beer made me snicker a bit, tho.

i can see how this could happen. by the time the police picked him up, he was already reported missing, so it sounds to me, like he left, and 5-10 min later they may have realized he wasnt there and reported it.

my sister is currently working in a kindergarden. things like this can easily happen. of course, once you you know you have an escape artist in your care, you gotta make sure, but they may not have known.

the article said there were other issues, but without knowing what they are, i cant pass judgement... some kids really are a challenge...

janetmichel3009

my sister is currently working in a kindergarden. things like this can easily happen

I'd say...no...not here in our school system. Our schools are indoor...meaning that a child has to wander inner hallways for some time to find an exit. All kids "out" require hall passes as well and most Teachers have their doors open during the day so passersby are noted. They also have extensive security camera monitoring thanks to Columbine.

The only case I have heard of recently with a young child leaving was when they were ABDUCTED by a person there are school for a magic show...then she was returned after being abused

My daughter's Kindergarten class never seemed to have issues with kids wanting to leave or trying to, those teachers had great control of them from what I saw...and I was there often.

*shrug*

i guess things are different over there. but honestly i find these things a bit extreme. security cameras? hmm. i'm not sure of the size of this facility, but i've never been in a kindergarden with more than 100 kids. seems quite the money and efford for something like that...

from my perspective it seems that in the states these things are always taken to the next level... the schools that are now disallowing ANY type of physical contact come to mind... i dunno... maybe it's just me...

My daughters school's total enrollment is 850+ that's grades K-6. The High schools are around 3000...my sisters graduating class had about 700 people in it. Texas has some of the higher property taxes in the USA from what I gather...so there's money there for cameras and such, tho that varies from district to district of course! Then there's Robin Hood LOL.

Everything is bigger in Texas

makes sense if it includes elementary school until 6th grade....

in germany kindergardens are mostly seperate, and often run by church groups, although not always. (and they arent necessarily religious kindergardens.... it depends...)