“and why it took the mother ten hours to get there (if it did),”
Personal experience with New York State BCI/Troop F State Troopers, they grab you and don’t tell your family for 13 hours.
1990, Sunday April 29 they did that to my brother.
Nevermind that he didn’t do what they accused him of, not teh point of this.
The point was, they probably grabbed the kid and didn’t tell the mom.
As for the school, school admins tends to be stupid, lazy, dissembling, and indecisive.
It probably took them six hours to decide they were going to do that.
I’d be surprised if the $5 even existed to begin with.
Saw an instance where a kid thought he was going to score a free fiver by claiming that he’d lost his and someone else picked it up.
*shrugs*
Dunno what to believe with this.
But then again, I’m admittedly cynical.