Posted on 02/12/2020 11:27:44 PM PST by grundle
An elementary school in Washington, DC, accidentally handed over the wrong 8-year-old student to a child-welfare worker, causing the young boy's family to panic when they arrived at the school to pick him up that day and realized he was missing.
Washington City Paper reported that a Child and Family Services Agency case worker arrived at the Harriet Tubman Elementary School on January 31 to pick up a child for a visit with his father.
But the school brought out a different student who happened to have the same distinctive first name, and the case worker left the school with the incorrect child around 2 p.m. that day.
The mistake wasn't caught until the student's relatives arrived at the school that afternoon to pick him up, and learned he had left with a child-welfare worker.
In response to a request for comment, the CFSA directed Insider to comments from its director, Brenda Donald, quoted in The Washington Post. Donald told the newspaper that the case worker had not previously met the child he was supposed to pick up before arriving at the school, and the child he mistakenly picked up never raised any questions about why he was taken from his classroom.
"He's a little kid, and usually the schools are trying to explain in a nice way that here's a nice person from CFSA who is going to take you to McDonald's to have lunch," Donald told The Post. "It was a mistake, and it's explainable. And again, I can understand the family being upset."
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Sadly - the kid was probably also excited to see his father.
All Negroes look alike. Oh wait...
“they all look alike”...
[accidentally handed over the wrong 8-year-old student to a child-welfare worker]
1) it was a kid
2) the kid was a he
3) he was a second grader
4) the second grader was 8 years old
5) the 8-year-old was a student there
They went 5 for 6. That’s better than 83%.
So the school gets a “B”.
“...the same distinctive first name,”
Free lunch at McDonalds... my kids would have probably gone at that age.
Yeah, really nice of them for their understanding, but I believe that person would have been on the receiving end of every curse word in the book, and maybe a few that aren’t. I wonder when the lawsuit will be filed?
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I guess the name was not that distinctive after all.
Sadly, I think members of that particular community are not likely to homeschool. Unless the child is being taken care of by their grandmother, which is usually the case.
oh Dear Lord....
“the case worker had not previously met the child he was supposed to pick up before arriving at the school, and the child he mistakenly picked up never raised any questions about why he was taken from his classroom”
Is this their protocol for making sure they ID the right kid?
“It was a mistake, and it’s explainable.”
Explanation: your agency is incompetent.
Hub’s ex-shrew (liberal) worked for that agency locally and made her way to supervisor by kissing up to the manager; another feminazi who set her own house on fire literally.
She is dumb as a box of rocks having plagiarized her way to a degree in English AND a terrible parent who tells others how to parent THEIR children (she’s moved on to not for profit foster agency)
Real child abuse goes uninvestigated as its mostly a tool to bully non custodial caucasian fathers out of their visitation.
In my two sisters’ cases, “homeschool” was so no one would have to get up early or be anywhere at any particular time...now before you all get excited, I know there are many legitimate home school situations. However, not all.
No the school was incompetent. The agency did not go in and randomly get a kid.
The school made the mistake
Uneeke was mistaken for Yooneek. /s
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