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Parents tell Monroe County School Board the district violated parental-rights statutes during Horace O’Brien dismissal
Summary
A Key West couple said school staff and a school resource officer refused to release their daughter at her established walker gate; they urged the Monroe County School Board to reinstate the procedure, require staff training and issue an apology.
Roy Telfer, who identified himself as a Key West resident and parent of two Horace O’Brien students, told the Monroe County School Board he and his wife experienced what he called “an egregious violation of legal parental rights” during a dismissal last week.
Telfer said district staff moved their daughter into a holding area in the cafeteria without informing the parents. When his wife arrived to pick up their child at the established walker gate, he said, “the school staff continued to refuse my wife's clear demand to release our daughter,” and a school resource officer told his wife she had “no parental right to dictate the process of retrieving our child.”
The couple said the principal later…
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