Administrators at a Scarborough elementary school are introducing new safety measures after a kindergarten student left the classroom and walked home without staff noticing she was missing.
In a letter sent out to parents of students at Knob Hill Public School, located near Eglinton and Lawrence avenues, the school’s principal Cathryn Dockstader said the incident occurred on Monday.
The school only realized the little girl was gone when they received a call from her mother notifying them that her daughter had walked home.“Thankfully the student was found safe but as you can imagine, it raised serious questions about how this could have happened,” Dockstader wrote. “We immediately began an investigation.”
She said a new policy is now in place which will require that a staff member who is familiar with students be in the classroom with the occasional teacher or early childhood educator. These include installing door alarms on the kindergarten doors, increasing the number of times head counts are conducted, and allowing students into the hallway only while they are under direct supervision.
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