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Parent tells board her 7-year-old special-needs son walked off Oliphant Elementary; asks for accountability and protocols
Summary
A parent described two separate incidents in which her 7-year-old son with special needs left Oliphant Elementary unsupervised and walked home; she said the principal was dismissive and that she sought help from assistant superintendent to secure support for her son, and she asked the board to require stricter protocols and accountability.
A Desert Sands Unified parent told trustees Wednesday that her 7-year-old special-needs son twice left Oliphant Elementary without staff supervision and walked home alone, and she urged the board to require clearer protocols and accountability for such incidents.
“He walked over a mile home by himself, and no staff notified myself, my husband, or the police,” the mother, Marcelino, said. She said the family first learned their son had left school when the son’s teacher told the husband who was picking up a sibling; the mother said she then…
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