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Parents ask Board of Education to clarify who supervises students after evening trips
Summary
At a Board of Education meeting, parents raised concerns after a middle-school student was left unsupervised following an after-hours field trip; Superintendent Joseph T. Sentimore said he will follow up and described current expectations for chaperones and on-site security.
Yvonne Gonzalez Guzman told the Board of Education on July 30 that her daughter was left alone on school grounds after a district field trip that returned outside regular school hours, and she urged the board to clarify who is responsible for ensuring students are picked up safely.
The issue matters, Gonzalez Guzman said, because some students have individualized needs: “A student, especially students who have IEPs and 504s,” she said, “what happened to our daughter should never happen to any student in this district.”
Board President Bridal Mallon acknowledged the concern…
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