Kindergarteners, first graders left at Miami-Dade Fair during field trip, parents demand answers

Frustrated parents are demanding answers after they say their children went on a field trip to the Miami-Dade County Fair on Tuesday and were then left behind.
Kindergarteners and first graders from Charles R. Drew K- 8 Center took a bus that morning to the fair, but at least three parents told NBC6 their child was not on the bus when it came back to school.
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[@ale7564]

As a former teacher, you count, re-count and re-re-count. Then you ask a student to count and at least one other adult to count. THEN you do a roll call, with eye contact. I never lost a kid.

[@justshalicious6283]

Teachers like you are slim pickings. 🫶🏾

[@tiffakang4525]

@@justshalicious6283nowadays.

[@MommeeMadre1]

You CONSTANTLY count!!! Right? Oh my stars!!!! If I have more than 3 children, I'm counting over and over.

[@blueeyes2058]

This is the way it should be done. Thank you for all your years of taking care of other ppl's children so well.

[@d.b.1218]

I am a 1st grade teacher and I do the same. Also, the problem students--I keep. I do not let my chaperones have them.

[@jdstep97]

Gen Xer here. What happened to that 1 loud teacher, who walked around with a roster, knew every kid by name, and who'd have a fit if you were not where you were supposed to be??? I guess those don't exist anymore.

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

Gen Xer here, as well. What?

[@jaytaylor2090]

😂😂😂😂...🎉that one loud..

[@Delsie1p]

Nope that's me.

[@maniachazbin]

She must have got cancelled by DEI for being "too loud" or "too much of an *actual* teacher."

[@YouTubeCallsMeAntiSemitic]

People are tired of trying to look after these unruly kids and getting paid pennies

[@joestratton3981]

What kind of a person would be so irresponsible to leave multiple children behind at a huge event like this. How stupid and irresponsible. I see lawsuits being won easily.

[@buickinvicta288]

D e i 😢

[@Imasinner]

You already know!!

[@Mike__B]

I bet they're hoping for a lawsuit, sounds like the perfect setup too. Parents get together before hand to let their kids stay later with his friends, another parent goes to the park not as a chaperone, convinces teacher that her son is going to stay longer and play, then also convinces teacher the friends of her son want to stay too, drives home and all the mom's who arranged this before hand are now outraged at this. News breaks story of "kids left" when the reality it was largely a lapse in judgement by the teacher who allowed a parent to take the children home instead of on the bus.

[@gellica04]

@@Mike__B yeah all the parents want is money. The leave their kinds outside by themselves all the time now the are acting concerned like stop it

[@SledDog5678]

Absolutely a winning lawsuit as well as the dismisal of teachers involved!!!

[@anitajohnson7367]

A fair is a big event for 5 & 6 years olds. Young children should enjoy small field trips like a children’s museum.

[@marcuslinton310]

Right? Why the F is a school taking kids to a fair?

[@tonkabeanpumpkin-fh4fz]

Agree! In fact, when I was 5 or 6 years old (late 1950s) children my age didn't go on any field trips, at all! I don't think we took field trips until we were 8 or 9, and never to an open, crowded, (potentially dangerous,) place like a county fair. They kept a tight rein on us, too.

[@Amariiiiie]

Well, this is a yearly field trip that has been happening for decades since, at least, I was a little girl growing up in Miami and I’m 38 now. In elementary, our school took us to the Dade County Youth Fair every year. My first field trip there was when I was in 1st grade. It’s a tradition for schools in Miami to do field trips there whenever the fair comes to town. The field trips are massive and school wide and the youth fair is packed with different schools from all over the county. It’s the most looked forward to trip of the year.

[@Kr0nicDragon]

My neighbours kid just came back from a school trip to Italy.....ITALY!!! so yea a little bitty fair is nothing compared to freaking ITALY.

[@jdstep97]

I think you can do a fair with 5 & 6 year olds, but you need good chaperones and enough parent volunteers. These days, though, I don't know about trusting all these cray-cray parent volunteers. I'm glad I don't have a kid in school anymore. Amen!

[@suzannell24]

don't they do a head count??? what???

[@0ChildStar]

I remembered those days when they did roll call on the bus. Teachers called your name and you answer here. They left those kids on purpose. 🤦🏾‍♀

[@laughalotitsgoodforyourbod7627]

I counted the kids every time I move to a new location. Which is why I stayed in the back of the line. I didn’t even have my GED when I was an assistant teaching. The qualified teacher was never concerned about it. They just had attitudes during the whole outing. SMFH

[@CheapsKate77]

If you watch the video you’ll hear that they weren’t just left behind; a teacher gave the kids to the parent that went to watch her own child. Although that’s not appropriate, they weren’t actually left at the fair like the title states.

[@sexychocolate282008]

​@@CheapsKate77yes they were because she wasn't an approved chaperone so that teacher messed up because they parent was not on the field trip so that child should have never been handed off to her parent or not that child was solely that teachers responsibility. There is protocol that is to be followed on all school field trips and that teacher did not follow it at all and both the school and the teacher could be in legal trouble because of it.

[@michie-wt9lz]

@@CheapsKate77ma’am why you trying to defend this atrocity. You don’t hand children off to a parent like that. If they came on the bus they leave on the bus

[@invisiblebully171]

All the child trafficking going on omg

[@user-nk4xm1rd1k]

OMD= Oh My Damn!

[@eruditedupreneur]

I don’t think it was negligence that 4 children or possible more was left. No way a teacher would leave 4 or more children. Each teacher is responsible for counting their students. Who was their teachers? I just find it hard to believe 1 child, yes, but 4 or more, no way. People are finding creative ways to push children into child trafficking these days. It is a big business. I would treat it as such a case. I’m just saying.

[@Mike__B]

little black boy, not worth much in the human trafficking market sorry to say.

[@egujugapupfh7543]

@@Mike__B that doesn't mean nothing

[@KAriedoll]

@@Mike__B Unfortunately, for organ trafficking, young black people are the main targets.

[@jadeinthewoods]

My kindergartner was taken on a field trip last month that I didn’t even know about. He’s a special needs kid, he has autism and doesn’t speak very well. No permission slip was sent home or anything. The only reason I found out about it was because a teacher’s assistant said, “he did great on the field trip today.” I was like, “what field trip?” Thankfully nothing went wrong but you never know.

[@susanvinson2667]

What happened to every child needing a permission slip or a parent signing them out before they can leave the school? That’s unacceptable. I’d be in the teacher’s face about it.

[@lisasmith6000]

It still is. 🤔

[@KCSimsStarter]

I'd be hot AF if that happened to me. Glad he did well and was safe.

[@Micaelaacuna]

So glad your baby is safe and everyone else's children that was involved in the story

[@carolinacarrillo6892]

I'm a teacher. In my school district, parents sign a general permission slip for the entire school year. Some parents don't even realize they have signed this document, but it has been in our welcome back packets for years. You should have still been informed about the field trip, though. Parents always have the option to excuse their children from any field trip regardless.

[@charzettasands5403]

That parent who followed her son to the fair is an ANGEL. She saved those children lives. HALLELUJAH ❤

[@ManiSBeezy]

And that morning, somebody was probably telling her she was being extra by popping up at his field trip. A true life saver. 🙌🏾

[@kiwi4707]

Didn’t the school have chaperones? Ridiculous!

[@Hppy_Cmpr]

Of course this happened in Floriduh in Dade County.

[@stevenundzid4765]

It's ridiculous because no volunteers to chaperone there to busy at home chilling in front of the TV eating moon pies and Chinese food packing on the lard

[@CheapsKate77]

Well that one parent went to watch her kid but I guess didn’t want to chaperone 😒

[@0ChildStar]

@@Hppy_Cmpr 🤣😭🤣💀

[@silentmajority8365]

I was a parent volunteer for 10 years Society requires participation Everybody complains but nobody takes the job

[@cardinalstar2048]

The whole ordeal is totally unacceptable!

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

Sounds to me like she got what she paid for.

[@vuksgitau]

​@@TheRealCaptainFreedomit was school trip dufus.

[@cheesedoesgaming6088]

@@TheRealCaptainFreedomwell it’s inner city schools what did you expect an iPad cart like the suburbs

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

@@cheesedoesgaming6088 Ironically, inner city public schools are funded way more than small wealthy suburban schools (something like $60k per student as opposed to like $15k per student), but a lot of the money disappears through graft and corruption and they also need barbed wire, metal detectors, rent-a-cops and bulletproof glass for that penitentiary vibe they love so much. Schools in the hood are sinkholes of public funding, but nobody complains because it is the state flushing money down the toilet with zero oversight as opposed to local taxpayers who might object.

[@psychedforlife7176]

I volunteered as a chaperone for field trips for my mom's kindergarten class. No children were ever unaccounted. This is a failure on so many levels. I just don't understand how it could even happen! Those poor kiddos were probably scared to death. Thankfully they made it home alive.

[@kyleegarcia5569]

My kid got lost at a fair for 5 minutes and I had a panick attack…I would be furious if I was these moms!

[@WilliamsPinch]

I can’t imagine the panic you felt.

[@barbararodriguezvlogs7980]

😳

[@the.nerdy.mermaid]

I’d be out for blood 😮

[@blue_moon6490]

Even when I went to an event, if my child rode the bus to the event, they had to ride the bus back to school from the event! Schools are responsible for the children from the minute they step on the bus until the school day ends. Period!

[@lesap8889]

Ex teacher and Cheerleading coach! You count the kids, say roll and count them again and then stay with them at the school Until you see them get into the parents car voluntarily

[@sarahsimpkins1311]

Who ever chaperone didn't pay attention

[@jackiedavidson682]

PARENTS are responsible for children. She left her child in someone’s else’s care, and while no caretaker should leave children behind, the mother shouldn’t be letting strangers take a 6yr old off to some event.

[@BUCHOFLOSERSYOUAREYETAGA-ei3oz]

@@jackiedavidson682 You are so stupid don't the words FEILD TRIP mean anything to you

[@pgppe9488]

First of all, my first grader wouldn’t go to the fair without me or my wife.

[@frezurmind]

When your kid goes on an outing make sure to write your information down on a paper and make a plan with your child just in case this is unacceptable DON'T PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ANYONE NOT EVEN TEACHERS

[@keveaston8573]

Exactly 💯, It's a blessing that no kid was injured or kidnapped

[@tonyrussi7777]

sad, but you are right.

[@venessamaxwell8105]

When I was 7,in 1968, I was abducted by a stranger and tortured and raped at Children's Art Day at Crandon Park, In Key Biscayne. The woman who was in charge of me was to blame. Dade County Parks and Rec were ultimately responsible for organizing this annual event (in the past) with no oversight but volunteer mothers carpooling with 9 kids in their massive station wagons. We think Covid was a pandemic, ha, nothing compared to child predators. It is rampant worldwide that children are moving targets. Protect Children. Support Senator Lauren Book.

[@pacodelahoya2000]

@frezurmind especially teachers. They're all woke idiots, and government workers..but I repeat myself.

[@melody7779]

AMEN

[@dawnelder9046]

I remember going on field trips as a parent volunteer. Before a bus left they not only counted the children on the bus, but called every name. Made sure they had that child. Once a child had gotten on the wrong bus, but the rule was no bus left until they made sure they had everyone on the assigned bus.

[@sorbabaric1]

I’m trying to figure out why a school and its teachers thought a trip to the Miami Dade Fair was appropriate for a school outing. At that age, we did a trip to the fire station after learning about fire safety.

[@ravinnichole2823]

Same ! Such a weird choice to take several really young children.

[@FORTIS-FORTUNA-ADIUVAT-HAWAII]

THEY ARE UPSET!!!!! IM UPSET AND IM OVER 80 AND NEVER HAD KIDS. HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? I WAS 5 YEARS OLD IN THE 1940'S, I WENT ON SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS, SOMETIMES AT NIGHT IN YELLOW SCHOOL BUSES. I MADE IT BACK. SUE SUE SUE!!!!

[@chriswitt2596]

Sue Sue Sue is that really what it's all about money?

[@Constance-cl3wg]

@@chriswitt2596sometimes it’s necessary.

[@chosen3258]

@@chriswitt2596 Sometimes it needed! And so is jail time - this is SAD HORRIBLE AND UNACCEPTABLE!!!! I hope those poor babies are okay! The school didn’t call or anything. It says one parent who didn’t want to be on camera was informed her kid was left and when she arrived a teacher handed off multiple children to her and just left !?! The schools negligence had worried Parents rushing to a packed carnival looking for their babies familiar faces 💔💔🥹 How and why did the school leave and hand off these kids, Your right absolutely Sue and Look deeper into these “staff” If it wasn’t for that lady who knows what couldn’t happened

[@maisahwilliams8193]

@@chriswitt2596It’s not all about money. Although that’s what needs to happen before things are taken seriously so that it never occurs with other children and families.

[@bpxl53yewz29]

I would never let my child go to a fair with their school. Teachers have too many kids to take care of if they don’t get enough parent chaperones and kids can wander off.

[@srodriguez721]

Exactly. If I am not a chaperone on that trip, my kids can’t go.

[@yogi8284]

My granddaughter is in the second grade and will only attend activities outside the school if I accompany her. Otherwise, she stays home. I am retired so it works out fine. When my husband is off duty, he tags along also. Our daughter is grateful for that.

[@debbielighthall9671]

So you are shaming the parents????

[@srodriguez721]

@@debbielighthall9671 I don’t think the parents are being blamed as much as being warned that your child may not be being watched as closely as you think.

[@HostileTakeover555]

🙄 most trips have responsible parent chaperons. Why don’t you just chain the kids to the desk zealot

[@1stsharkb8]

Another reason for homeschooling

[@SnapChit]

The irony is that the woman being interviewed most likely votes exclusively for the anti-school choice political party. These people regularly experience the sheer incompetence of the public school system, yet they continue to vote for Democrats, who will do everything they can to prevent these parents from having any other education options for their kids. The general public are truly comprised of complete imbeciles.

[@leelee185]

Thank you , I home school and I'm judged for it but I home-school to avoid these situations.

[@Mike__B]

LOL yeah, except that most of those people use school as a free version of babysitting because they're at work all day long... like most parents.

[@smujer1]

Exactly

[@xoxo-vp7ww]

@leelee185: HS is the absolute best especially considering the world today and all of the resources made available to you. Please don’t allow anyone to tell you different.

[@carly4513]

I went on a field trip with my second grader because they were going whale watching, which I thought they were too young for. My kid wasn't going over the ocean in a boat without me there to watch her. I didn't go as chaperone as I had to take my 3 year old with me. What an eye-opener. Half the kids were hurling over the side. Several of the rest were lined up in front of me to take turns with the number games I'd brought (which my child loved). I could not believe how little the teachers were interested in taking care of the kids. The school never went on that trip again.

[@m_y_v_]

Best idea is to volunteer in class to see how a teacher interacts with students. Some teachers are careless & it becomes dangerous because parents trust that the teachers know better but not all

[@carly4513]

@@m_y_v_ My kids have had some amazing teachers. But not this one. Who would take a bunch of 7 year olds on a whale watching trip, several hours out into the ocean?

[@ArtistCreek]

I wouldnt have let my kid go without me either. That trip sounds like a recipe for disaster.

[@velvetchiharu]

So basically the teacher is the one who wanted to go on a whale watching trip 🤨 unbelievable. Growing up I never had issues on my field trips, so scary to have to actually sit in and observe because this is the kind of mess that can actually happen.

[@shanelalitay1224]

Fair? Why are kindergartners going to a public fair in the first place? What happened to puppet shows and children’s museums

[@nooshinscorner]

I am in my late 40's and we went to the fair at that age. Their are animals and rides for small children as well as learning about gardening at a few around the nation. Better overall rounded education is why.

[@trekker1961]

Nothing wrong with kindergarteners going on a field trip to a State Fair.

[@jediD20]

pedophiles?

[@VVV953]

​ ☺️ trust me it's actually normal for kids to go on a field trip to a fair, the school district I work for had me chaperone second and third graders at at our local County Fair here in California

[@arthurhudson3592]

It doesn't matter where they go kids need to be supervised

[@henny1fan561]

I read more info on this situation.....There were 13 students left behind...there was at least one teacher still there with the kids because she handed another child off to a parent that was there watching her own child ...that parent drove a couple kids home ....the bus actually did turn around and picked up the 8 children that were still there that did not get a ride from a parent. The fair was only open for school field trips...only opened to the general public later in the day at 4pm to ensure children are safer

[@amandacausey9450]

Thank you for this information!

[@henny1fan561]

@@amandacausey9450 You are welcome ☺️

[@theodorabruin4601]

So much for reporters that don't get the entire story. Figures it's MSM...they make things up or never report because they're government controlled what to say. Go to any of those channels and they basically read off the same script. Thanks for the update.

[@henny1fan561]

@@theodorabruin4601 Yes you are correct. You are welcome.

[@thetaekwondoe3887]

But why? Was there suddenly no room on the bus for all the people that were on there to begin with? Or were there two buses and one bailed, leaving some people stuck there because there wasn't enough room for them all to be safely on the one bus?

[@laurieo877]

No excuse whatsoever, leaving kids behind. As a retired K teacher, on trips(even in the classroom) you constantly count and keep track of each student. You also count your students on the bus before it leaves. Teachers should b fired for this.

[@J3SS62]

Insane 😮 I bet it would of been a parent they would of been charged with neglect what about the school? Or the people who left them 😒

[@nooshinscorner]

Yes, the parents could have had their children taken from the home if they had left them somewhere like a fair. Sexual predators are everywhere. Hopefully we won't find out about a child abduction later on this evening.

[@createone100]

‘Would HAVE’, not ‘would of’! 🙄Jeez.

[@qianabrown3662]

​@createone100 Jesus not Jeez.

[@createone100]

@@qianabrown3662 Jeezus!

[@Shani12301]

This is not a conversation where grammar police are needed, you understand what’s being said move along. Stop trying to take away the seriousness of the conversation grow up.

[@tiffanyjames7150]

There seems some details missing….a parent is at the fair to watch her own child, but not as a chaperone. However she ends up with her own child and her friends child and 2 other children. Miscommunication run amok

[@chitowndee-lolo712]

It’s possible she couldn’t be a chaperone because she has a “record”. Here in Chicago parents who want to volunteer have to have a background check done. If they have a record, they aren’t allowed to chaperone or volunteer. This is for Chicago Public Schools.🤷🏾‍♀️

[@kip3784]

When I taught at public school, I loved and feared field trips. I was always blessed with parent volunteers to help. They were all in charge of 5-6 kids. I would count groups, count the kid's in each group, and check in with volunteers regularly. I breathed a huge sigh of relief those final counts on the bus and getting back into class. This is a nightmare come to life!

[@zerodeconduite804]

Good for her for being brave enough to speak out.

[@DavidKen878]

Since when did it take bravery to publicly criticize a school? Grow a spine.

[@InnocentUntil718]

Horrible

[@komradekush3411]

they always took attendance before we left for the field trip, and again before we left FROM the field trip! someone took a shortcut or made assumptions and needs to be held accountable

[@sexychocolate282008]

Yes very much so I have been on multiple field trips with my daughter and they took attendance at the school before leaving when we got to field trip destination and when we were leaving said field trip destination. Someone was being very lazy

[@martaaltheide5146]

5, 6, year olds? At a fair? Too big a place for little ones, what were the parents thinking??? Mom, Pop, and our 3 5,6,7 at a Fair? Never. Too many child predators out there

[@dorreyeet1529]

Why not the mall then?

[@ingamingpc1634]

@@dorreyeet1529 same reason malls are too big they're like mazes kids can get lost you're better off going to a smaller area like a museum local museums are smaller and you likely have more chaperones or at least the ones they Supply you with would be enough to take care of the children but a fair and even a mall is too big and if you don't have enough chaperones eventually a child can get lost

[@dorreyeet1529]

@@ingamingpc1634 ok that’s tru and yeah I did get lost in a mall as a kid

[@CheapsKate77]

There are many issues here… First, it doesn’t sound like the kids were just left at the fair; the unidentified parent said a teacher gave her a few kids to drive back to the school. The reason for that needs to be explained. And why would that parent go on the trip to watch her child, but not sign up to be a chaperone? That’s weird. Finally, a fair should never be a field trip because of the crowds and room for dangerous situations, especially kids as young as five!!

[@sexychocolate282008]

She was not given them to drive back to the school the teacher handed her off her child which she was never supposed to do because she was not a chaperone. The only way those kids were supposed to go back to the school was the same way they got there the school and district are responsible for them on field trips its to much of a liability to the school to let kids leave with someone else cause then they would be at fault for letting them leave and then something happened to them.

[@changes6679]

Schools only allow a certain amount of chaperones. I go on field trips with my son and not as a chaperone. I also go to keep an eye on my child.

[@fwill4923]

Sounds like the parent used the field trip as a way to get off work but didn’t actually want to chaperone.

[@HeyMsVal]

That's a silly question to say. Maybe it was her day off.

[@MS-cl5lz]

Whenever there was a field trip I went for the safety of my child and in that knowing I would be responsible for other children too . I just thought it was a WIN WIN . You have to think long and hard about ANYONE you trust your children with - ALWAYS !

[@therealcraigsutton2740]

So much for No Child Left Behind 🤣🤣

[@gailcarey3597]

What is educational about a fair? I’m a retired educator that took many field trips with my students and I can’t fathom how this happened.

[@carolperdue7534]

Fairs have animal exhibits, craft shows, lots of educational activities. I'm surprised a "retired educator" wouldn't know that.

[@xoxo-vp7ww]

@gailcarey3597: the world at-large is a classroom. There is something to learn everywhere. And children that age tend to learn faster through play/sensory/fun. Someone above mentioned crafts, but what about all of the opportunities to explore/introduce STEM?? SN: I do understand the safety concerns though.

[@JesusLovesEVERYTHING]

I'm from there and around that age, we went on a field trip to the fair. There are things there that could broaden a child's mind besides rides and food.

[@ingamingpc1634]

@@JesusLovesEVERYTHING that's not the point I think he's asking how the hell were they able to lose so many children that is something that's inexcusable and should not have happened

[@marshamunger6004]

What kind of school is this ? What kind of teachers, chaperones and administrators could NOT be concerned and responsible for these children?

[@shanepowers7566]

Well said!

[@lsharon2175]

It's the kind of school that doesn't care and fosters an atmosphere of "don't care".

[@husbandsonfollowerleader9133]

There's more to this story.

[@luju47]

All the good teachers left because the amount of disrespect they get nowadays.

[@susanhill149]

What school allows a field trip to the fair anyway? That’s ridiculous and these kids were way too young to be somewhere like that. Way too many things can go wrong.

[@dcole2133]

Homeschooling is the way to go

[@janschild]

It absolutely is👍🏽

[@jacklifeson]

You think these two are going to homeschool? "Had I wouldnt had been there..."

[@carolperdue7534]

Like kids don't wander off and get lost in the care of their parents.

[@LiveByDesign]

@@jacklifesonwhy do they speak a colloquial form of English? Does it have anything to do with their ancestors speaking a different language and transplanted here against their will? 😑

[@LiveByDesign]

@@carolperdue7534except parents aren’t leaving the event without their kids!

[@e.k.severson]

I'm so glad the kids were okay!! This happened to my son, too, when he was in 6th grade. It was a field trip to a wave pool... I was starting to get REALLY FREAKED OUT when he was late. (About an hour/hour and a half) A woman (guidance counselor) finally brought him home, told me that he got left there. She got him, then bought him McDonald's on the way home, like that fixed it or something! I didn't know what to do, but felt let down by the school for sure, and like they were not reliable. He also got bullied a lot, and they didn't really resolve or deal with that professionally, either. I was angry that they hid that for a long time, and then finally told us and said they were, "Trying to handle it ourselves." I still get angry 15 years later thinking about all of it!

[@janetarmstrong7010]

I'm a retired teacher. What if your son had been allergic to something that she had gotten for him at McDonald's? That was so negligent of her and without your permission!! This makes me so upset to read even if it was 15 yrs. ago!

[@DavidKen878]

@@janetarmstrong7010Do you hear yourself?

[@angelao1723]

I haven’t taught in 5 years and I still have nightmares about being on a field trip and counting students multiple times trying to find a missing child. I always wake up in such a panic. The amount of responsibility and pressure you feel when taking other people’s children on a field trip is monumental. I can’t imagine getting to the bus without realizing a child is missing and I definitely don’t understand how they made it all the way to the school without realizing. You count heads about a million times on a field trip.

[@doodles3075]

If these children were on a bus, they should have been triple checked on a list before leaving! How an earth can they leave 1 child yet enough 4?! Someone needs to loose their job over this, it's child endangerment!

[@ambercarter9746]

This is the reason I go to all My kids field trips.

[@viewfromthemoon]

When I was 12, my friends and I ditched our school trip while the whole class was riding on the subway. The class exited the wagons and we stayed behind, the teacher saw us leave but couldn't do anything about it. It's not her fault, she was alone looking after 30 kids on the subway! These trips are well intentioned but not always well thought-out. The teachers need support for excursions like that.

[@lisab9541]

Children that age should not be going on field trips to fairs. Plus, the school teachers should never leave without every child accounted for. I was a high school teacher and know that I was most concerned about the students welfare and safety and counted and recounted and checked rosters if we were on a field trip.

[@KaylaBuhdayla]

This is a teacher’s responsibility. Just crazy! We do a head count before and after boarding. Good Gracious

[@billking1751]

Yes, I would want answers about that myself, without question. What is wrong with teachers, and principals at these schools these days?

[@saythankyou111]

Teachers union…it’s a cult✊🏾☠️

[@ShannonsBibleStudy]

They should have taken a head count before heading to the fair and again when heading back to the school.

[@Confessions089]

And a group count in the middle of the outing.

[@eruditedupreneur]

Thats what they are supposed to do.

[@maryfjordan5283]

You're assuming these morons can count!

[@watchinvidzwatchinvidz7691]

They don't care about your children. Why are we trusting them?

[@e.k.severson]

❤ I think all they care about is the money they get, per student, each day!! (Mainly the administration.)

[@susanmorgan4151]

True on so many levels!😢

[@LadyLeomon]

@@e.k.seversonbut that makes no sense, because if money was a factor then you KNOW they would have triple-checked the number of students before leaving 😕😕😕

[@marcuslinton310]

Why the F is a school taking kids to a fair?

[@user-nk4xm1rd1k]

Usually, when school days are about to end (due to Summer) A trip to an amusement park is given by the school and parents are welcome to participate on the trip

[@thedirtybubble9613]

@@user-nk4xm1rd1k Schools don't let out for summer break until early June.

[@lindapindabelinda3570]

The title doesn’t match the story. How did the parent get custody of those other three children?

[@momof2gr8boys]

Makes me wonder if people commenting even watched the video?

[@robynfisher4455]

More to this story. They were " handed over" to a parent, not left behind. Why was that parent there if not as one of the chaperones?

[@B3autifullyInsan3]

Do they not do head count anymore once they are back at the bus to leave? Thats what i remember when i would go with my sons school on a trip

[@lindas9550]

They need to add the bus driver to that negligence. the bus driver needs to know how many children are on that bus going, and to have a head count before that bus EVER pulls out from the fairgrounds, or wherever you take them!! That is exactly what I do whenever I take a field trip. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had left the child behind. It is the teacher's responsibility but it's also the drivers

[@Shani12301]

They need to implement that and make it apart of school bus driver rules.

[@WilliamsPinch]

I always chaperone field trips, because it is unrealistic to think a few teachers could keep track of dozens of children in an uncontrolled environment.

[@carolwilliams8281]

UNACCEPTABLE!

[@stinew358]

I was a camp counselor and would regularly take 200 kids (not by myself). Why didn't they take attendance as they were getting on the bus? I can see how the teacher might have heard "oh their mom came and is taking him home" but I would have had to personally check and also the adult would have to actually be the person authorized to take the children. I would have to have known about this in advance, too. Field trips are stressful and can be truly awful if you're understaffed. I never lost a kid but it's a constant struggle because there's always that one kid who seems intent on escaping.

[@aurelie8220]

I’ve been a first grade teacher for years. I also taught Kindergarten. I am horrified by this. There is no excuse. And at this age, they are babies. So scary to think of them left behind. And I don’t think I would ever plan a field trip to the fair for kindergarten anyway, it’s like herding cats just INSIDE the school.

[@leem200]

A field trip with that age should be not during Fair hours. Who idea was the field trip to the Fair at that age? To young, to busy, and to many people. I would not have let my child go to it, for the safety reason alone.

[@pamwaldron3504]

The fair was closed to the public during the field trip. School hours are M-F, 8AM-2pm in Florida because of the heat in the afternoons. The schools let out and kids go home or to day care well before the fair opens at 4 pm. The school buses need to be back at the school and unloaded by 1-1:30 pm so they can get on their routes at other schools on time. The fair sopen during the early afternoon (and some mornings) on weekends only. The only people at the fair grounds during a field trip would have been people going in to care for their plants or farm animals (mainly FFA {Future Farmers of America,} home schools, or 4-H), vendors prepping for the day, and the Fair Association people who host the events at and care for the fairgrounds. And the teachers, parents/chaperones and children. The children are often taken to the fair during the morning hours to see the animals as many of them have never even seen a farm animal. If there is a petting zoo, it may be opened to allow the children to interact with the animals. There are also school displays set up by different schools in the county that the children may be allowed to see. Fair associations often set up a few days for schools to have field trips to see what goes on during a fair, but the games, rides and food booths are not open.

[@raymondturpin3265]

No excuse! Bus should have never left the fair without the full accounting of the children it came with.

[@jillmortlock8439]

I did multiple school trips with both my daughters. Parents and children all went on the bus. No one ever got left behind.

[@hross5631]

...and people wonder why home-school is a thing?

[@jacklifeson]

Yeah, these two def give off homeschool teacher vibes. Theres alot going on under that shower cap. A. LOT.

[@johnwillison6483]

This very sad incident shows the complete lack of respect and safety of each and every child and their parents!! This goes to show the level of stupidity and incompetence and laziness and negligence of the teachers and the school itself!! This incident needs to be handled from all the way from the top to the school board members to the principal clear down to the teachers that was supposed to be safe guarding and chaperoning these children while at the fairgrounds!! I hope the parents get answers they rightfully deserve and new plans are put into place to avoid such incidents from ever happening AGAIN!! 😠😡☹️

[@arlismills3133]

I got locked in a school library after hours because my teacher forgot I was in class that day, and assumed I was absent when they left the library. Even though she was the one that brought me there. The librarian and her assistant both failed to sweep the library before they left. When I finished my book, I was sitting in the dark with no one around me. My parents called the bus garage when I didn't get off the bus, they told them I never got on the bus. My parents called the school, fortunately the secretary was still there and came searching for me. She found me waving at her from the inside of the library. She freaked out, tried to open the door, realized she didn't have a key, and had to call the librarian back to come open the door. The librarian hated me from day one and definitely treated me worse after that event. I remember not being scared, because I didn't live far from the school, and I could push a screen out of the window and get out if I had to.

[@Sandi-ke9mi]

I live in a senior community and we take bus trips. The woman that organizes everything is extremely proud of the fact that she has never lost anyone in over 20 years of doing it. My parents once forgot to pick me up from Girl Scouts and it traumatized me for years. More than once they left me outside a locked church, wandering the street, wondering if anybody was coming to get me before it got dark. And I was 11 at that time. Am I surprised this happened in Florida? No. When it comes to protecting children, they’re all talk. But I think the parents have a lawsuit. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@jimjones6960]

What a nightmare for these poor parents and kids! Thank god something worse didn't happen to these children!

[@MsArtistwannabe]

How’s is this even possible?

[@LiveByDesign]

This is extreme child neglect! Where are the charges?!

[@lenmaldita3247]

In my country at least 2 parents are required to go with the children in every class for a fieldtrip. So 2 teachers, 2 parents are on board to supervised the students.

[@LamarA-bq1zz]

That first lady needs to answer why she is outside looking like that....

[@kathleenholt6008]

Is she wearing a black garbage bag on her head?

[@ceelo6369]

Exactly. The media always looks for the person who looks the worst. I would be so ashamed if my mother showed up in public wearing this ugly, gigantic bonnet.

[@jowbloe4700]

🤣

[@theislanderinme5227]

It's crazy to think we'll "know" that in this day of age this happened. I'm a 90s kid and throughout my elementary years in the 90s, I went on a lot of field trips and my schools always did a head count going in and out of the bus. There were always one or two other teachers/aide to help with the crowd control.

[@cyberartsy]

The level of incompetence is off the charts!

[@sallychambers3594]

I would be suing that school district! What if one of the kids had gotten hurt?? Who would have to take responsibility for that??? Totally disgraceful!! These people need to be arrested and charged at the least with child endangerment at least and child abandonment !!! No doubt all should lose their jobs!!!

[@moonbuni59]

I am confused. So a random parent just decides to follow the field trip around and then is handed her child and three others to drive home? Am I getting this right? One of those kids that drove with the random parent was this ladies’ son? So if that is correct her son wasn’t left behind, but was brought back with another parent. Not saying that is not a problem because you ride the bus there you should ride it home, but was this parent known to the child and he wanted to ride with her instead of ride the bus? The teacher should have told the parent to meet the bus at the school. When I helped with field trips the only time a child was allowed to leave with a parent is when there was permission given before the trip. That was usually to someone who was chaperoning and only their child. Someone dropped the ball major.

[@Nebakrik88]

You’re exactly right all these idiots are missing that.. no child was left behind.. for the reporter to say that no one knows if there are any other children left behind is irresponsible.. inflating a news story ..They’re just looking to sue..

[@customer5032]

Agreed. No one was left behind, they went home with a parent when they were supposed to go home on the bus. 🙄

[@moonbuni59]

@@customer5032 it still wasn’t a good look for the teachers and chaperones, but the kids were safe at least

[@allegrap1054]

When there were neighborhood schools with staff that actually lived in the neighborhood that knew the parents things were different. People don’t have a vested interest anymore and don’t care anymore. Hopefully they sue the pants off that school district.

[@AllieOopsTK]

Teacher here. You count and take names multiple times, and if you can’t find that kid, you go and LOOK FOR THAT KID.

[@tullochmacdonald4245]

Growing up in Massachusetts, I remember going on several field trips to Boston. First grade was the New England Aquarium, and 2nd grade was the Boston Science Museum. There were enough teachers and chaperons that each adult had 6 kids to keep with them. When we entered the Aquarium or Science Museum, the teachers took us to a designated meeting place in case we did get separated. We had a great time at both places. These things can be done, when the teachers are prepared, make sure the chaperones are on the same page as the teachers. This allowed smaller groups to explore, and the students got to see more. One last thing. We, the students, knew there would be heck to pay if we didn't follow directions.

[@dhoover5480]

Scary for the child and parents

[@mrj2654]

Parents outraged as kindergarteners and first graders left at county fair instead of being taken back to school. In other news, an independent poll taken by both kindergarteners and first graders, name Charles R. Drew K-8 center school of the year!

[@lbccarpediem]

That's sad. Those children had to be so scared. Leaving the parents frantic after learning what happened. I hope they all made it back safely. That should of never happened.

[@coll4455]

Thank god that other mom stayed there: That is absolutely unexplainable

[@GIAJTIH8900]

Sue them!

[@lorenzowalker2130]

take them daym bonnets off and leave em in the house goodness!!

[@lissaslighthouse8475]

LIKE FRFR!!! HOW CAN ANYONE TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY??

[@abbiereynolds8016]

No shame whatsoever. Not to take away from the seriousness of the situation but how do you feel comfortable getting interviewed by the news in what's essentially your pyjamas?

[@user-nk4xm1rd1k]

Bonnet Bandit strike again

[@venessamaxwell8105]

@@user-nk4xm1rd1k@user-nk4xm1rd1k The COVID-19 Laziness took hold. I'm 65, and I admit, I went to the store with my fuzzy PJ bottoms. I got the idea from my grandchildren, as it is their preferred style choice. I don't look good in a bonnet, but I would choose a Rasta Tam if I had big, beautiful hair. Style is a personal expression and the cultural phenomenon of wanting to fit it is The Bonnet

[@asiamommi]

Back when I was in high school, a girl came in wearing a "kerchief" (I'm old) and the female security guard there read her up and down about how you never leave the house like that and you need to take pride in your apperance. Always stuck with me.

[@992001jeffr]

The school district should have been “concerned” before it happened, not after.

[@sexychocolate282008]

A child can never leave a field trip with a parent its against school roles. The parent should have never been given her child because she was not an approved chaperone for the field trip she went there on her own just to watch to make sure they were ok and the teacher broke all kinds of rules and protocol with not 1 but 4 kids. That teacher and the school could be held legally liable for her doing what she did. If they are not an approved volunteer chaperone they can not be with the kids you have to go to class now and everything to be a field trip chaperone. Back ground checks are done as well.

[@momof2gr8boys]

That was my thought exactly! This is very misleading. It’s being made to sound like the kids were left behind by themselves, when in fact they were with a parent. Which sounds like she knew all the kids. What they are liable for is releasing them to a non chaperone.

[@godc1109]

My son👨🏾‍🎓 grad high school last yr. He couldn’t even ride home with me after his football game. All students had to ride the bus bk to the school to be accounted for. I just followed the bus. Even in 3/4 grad when he went to kings Island in Ohio for good grades, I chaperone for a group of kids. Which they all had to be counted multiple times before heading to bus & on bus. My son still couldn’t leave with me. It was against school policy. I again followed bus bk to the school to get him. The adults in charge are wrong for what they did.

[@Cablecol]

Absolutely ridiculous.

[@chrisspears9937]

There's more than one person to blame the teachers yes definitely to blame the school bus drivers supposed to count each child as they get on the bus if they do not have the right amount coming back they don't leave the area so it's not just the teachers it's the driver of the bus

[@billybrown7953]

LOL 😂, yea blame the bus driver.

[@billking1751]

Bus drivers never are responsible for that. That's the teacher's job.

[@nooshinscorner]

@@billking1751 So, you're saying that the bus driver can't count the number of kids that came on the bus? He/she couldn't have taken 2 minutes out of their precious time to do that? The safety of a child is everyone's responsibility. PERIOD. I don't care what "rules" a school has set up. Being a damn idiot is no excuse.

[@nooshinscorner]

@@billybrown7953 Yes indeed. Blame the bus driver too. He/she can count right?

[@nooshinscorner]

Agreed.

[@buddhaganesh6318]

Honestly I cannot understand what this person is saying?

[@SuzyEH]

Teacher should be and charged with child endangerment!

[@AlmostMiddleAgedASMR]

Thank God that mom was there to watch her child! Good on you for bringing the other kids back safely!

[@erikamcneal4402]

The bonnet though

[@Screenwriting]

I'm 99% sure those were jockey shorts.

[@Wweccgbbjkgcg]

That’s why they left their children.

[@erikamcneal4402]

@Wweccgbbjkgcg there is no good reason ever to leave someone's child, but she should be ashamed of herself for going on tv like that. So sad people now have taken this to be normal.

[@maryjackson9816]

Stupid comments for a serious situation

[@mjbankhead9063]

These are the women Mo’Nique was talking about

[@annieberardino8732]

When they released that statement they twisted their words to make the situation sound better “students were picked up by a parent instead of taking the bus” NO STUDENTS WERE LEFT BEHIND AND A PARENT PICKED UP THE CHILDREN AFTER THE SCHOOL LEFT THEM. When I was a kid I never been on a field trip where anyone was left behind. We were late leaving once because they had to hunt down a kid trying to be left behind. He wanted to live in the zoo 😂

[@jjjohnaon1859]

😮WOW!!! I'm SMH. This is unacceptable and unbelievable. Thank GOD, all the students are safe and unarmed.

[@Cristinerex5]

Oh heck that happened to me when I was a kid. I didn't know how to use a payphone, but very kind people watched over me for hours until I was recovered by my mother. I know times are different now but thank god everyone is okay!

[@laurencaulton103]

Oh Lord!! That's so scary. Little ones left at a fair ?? That statement itself is a cover-up. The lady saved the kids. They want it to sound like she's the reason the kids weren't on the bus!! Isn't this child endangerment???

[@thomasbrooker6970]

Totally unacceptable! Every child that was on the bus going,should’ve been on the bus leaving!

[@justice2255]

TERRIFYING. Where were the teachers? They should have been watching their flock. Elementary children of any age should never be out of sight. Anyone of them were in danger of being harmed by a ride or taken into child trafficking or by a monster.

[@empressq444]

My heart aches for parents who may not have help. I attended most field trips with my children and when I could not get off of work, I had a relative go with them. I never allowed them to go alone. There are too many adults who don’t care. It’s sad. I’m glad the 4 children that were left are ok.

[@rosecitytheaftershow]

This is scary

[@kenyaepps4714]

The parents signed permission slips to allow minors to go to a public fair? No a Museum, Library or some other place more educational and suitable for children this age!

[@AmusedChild]

Well, we went to fairs when we were kids.

[@askew9976]

It’s called FUN. Get that stick removed and try it sometime.

[@nooshinscorner]

@@askew9976 Excellent reply. Have a fab rest of your day. 😉

[@ingamingpc1634]

@@askew9976 so when your child gets taken by a stranger remember you called it fun God why is it always the stupid ones that are online

[@Ashley-xe6bc]

In this day and age why would you let your child go out on a field trip without you

[@nameisprivate5429]

I’ve raised 4 girls….never once in all those years of field trips did they fail to call names, count kids as they get on the bus and off the bus and then call names again. It’s an arduous process but they have all done it religiously no matter what grade or what age of kid. This is horrifying.

[@NickyM1964]

If I couldn't go on the trip, my kids didn't go on the trip, simple as that. I never trusted any school teachers or staff outside the building, half the trips I chaperoned I witnessed teachers constantly sneaking off to smoke a cigarette or get a drink smh...