[msdrby]

That is a good question. I don't know about how the high schools work. My experience is with the elementary level. If the pick up occured at the end of the day, we never even saw the parents. Kids often walked home independently. However, anyone removing a student from class during the school day was required to verify ID and sign out the student, they also usually waited in the main office on the couch for the kiddo.

On 9/11, the principal went door to door along the hallways telling teachers to lock the doors to our classrooms cuz parents were lined up out of the school doors wanting to pick their kids up from school at 9:00am. Parents were turned away who did not have ID in hand. We had a lot of ticked off parents that day.

[Wneighbor]

Well, the day I picked up my friend's kids was back in September or October I think. It was a second grader and 2 third graders. I just went to the office and showed 'em the note and the school let 'em go with me.

Now, because it seemed like the "right" thing to do to me, I waited in the office till the boys got there. But, they didn't ask me to do that or ask for any ID. I didn't think about that at the time. IMO, I thought I ought to wait in the office so at least the office personnel would see that the boys *knew* me when they left with me.

Of course, 99.999% of the time a non-parent picking a kid up would be circumstances like that. The mom's car had broken down and I was just helping with a ride to three dental appointments.

I never heard of the law you spoke of, but I sure wish schools would use it.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Everyone's glad a child of mine wasn't in your school on that day.

Would have been a sight to see ...!