Connecticut Man Takes Wrong Kid Home From School
Oops...I took home the wrong kid.
Angela Stone, the mother of a 5-year-old Sterling School student in Connecticut, had a lot to say at an education board meeting on Tuesday night. A man mistakenly took her son home thinking it was his grandson. Sounds humorous, but Stone is furious at how the school handled the situation.
Sterling Community School seems to have some organizational problems when it comes to dismissal time. "We had all expressed that dismissal time was a disaster waiting to happen," Stone said. "And this past Friday that disaster became my family's reality. It infuriates me that it took this incident for administration to make the beginning steps of policy change."
Stone's son was waiting for his bus home at the school on Friday afternoon when an unidentified man confused him for his grandson. The man took the 5-year-old boy to his car and rode him all the way to his house. It was the man's wife who noticed that the little boy, refusing to enter the house, was not her grandson. She immediately called school officials, who simply asked the couple to drive the boy back to the school.
Angela Stone says that the boy complained to the man that he was going the wrong way while in the car. He wisely refused to enter the stranger's home and, without the police being called, a bus took him home after his return to Sterling. The school's Superintendent Rena Klebart said that the man's actual grandson and Stone's son were wearing similar hats and that's the reason for the mix-up.
But parents are now more worried than ever as the Sterling Community School seemed to not have cared to even call the police after the incident. Stone was the one who contacted the state police after she learned a stranger had drove her son all the way to his house. Klebart acknowledged that school staffers made mistakes in this situation and that they will take steps to prevent similar mix-ups. Several people called for disciplinary action against Klebart and the school principal.
How funny or not funny is this situation to you?