7-Year-Old Fools Texas School With Own Handwritten Note, Gets To Go Home
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7-Year-Old Fools Texas School With Own Handwritten Note, Gets To Go Home (VIDEO)
Wow, Houston, you’ve got a problem! Your Sheldon Elementary School just let a 7-year-old girl go home on the strength of her own, handwritten, misspelled note — printed on a ripped-off half sheet of notebook paper.
The printing is obviously a child’s — unless you’re working for Sheldon Elementary, that is. Consider that the girl wrote:
“I want Rosabella to go too dus 131 today!”
Don’t know what “dus” means? The staff of the after school program did. They let little Rosabella Dahu get on “bus” 131 and go home to an empty, locked house instead of staying with the program, where she belonged.
The Father Was Incredulous.
Her father, Charlie Dahu , was incredulous. He had no idea what had happened until a neighbor called him to report that Rosabella was outside the house, all alone. The neighbor took her in.
Why didn’t the school call Dahu to check on the validity of the crude note? Well, that’s what Dahu wanted to know. He took the note with him to confront school officials. He asked an employee there:
“Now, does this look like a note that a parent would write?”
The woman admitted that it did not, saying that’s why she “asked” her boss. Asked her boss what? At least two adults saw the note — one in a position of authority over the other — and still let Rosabella go home without contacting her father.
If this is the level of competency the Texas school expects from its employees, parents should be very worried. Dahu was. He immediately transferred his daughter elsewhere, without waiting for the school to do a promised “investigation.” The father said he didn’t have any faith in the school, and why should he? He also said:
“Obviously they didn’t have proper procedures in place. This is clearly the school’s fault. How a seven-year-old can trick you, it boggles my mind.”
The School’s Excuse Was A Complete Fail.
The school did have an excuse to offer Dahu, though:
“They told me they’ve called parents before about questionably written notes and the parents got outraged they weren’t taken seriously. Luckily nothing happened to my daughter. Someone does need to look into this, though.”
Parents write illiterate notes, employees take them at face value, children aren’t kept safe — someone certainly does need to look into the situation, and the larger picture, as well. This was a compete fail on the part of the school. There is simply no excuse for not taking better care of children in their charge.
Dahu is just glad he found his daughter unharmed. The outcome could have been so much worse.
The father refused to let his daughter be interviewed, not wanting her to be rewarded for her behavior. Dahu did say:
“Appropriate action was taken and she knows it was wrong. I don’t condone it.”
At least there was one adult in the situation!
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I bet this works in Florida too.