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Posted on 02/20/2026 10:41:45 AM PST by lowbridge
A mother says she just wants answers after she found her son with special needs wandering miles away from his school when he was supposed to be in class.
"I don't feel safe. I'm just scared to go back. Something could happen ... again," sixth-grader Richard Harley said.
Harley, 11, says he doesn't want to go back to class after he was found wandering, scared and alone, miles away from school grounds after a student-led walkout protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"They were supposed to stay there, like on 72 by the school. But they did the exact opposite and went much farther, and no one even knew how far they were going," Harley said. "I was like the last one; so like, I was all alone."
The incident happened Tuesday morning at Dundee Middle School in the far northwest suburb, where the sixth-grader is a student.
His mother says she was not notified about the walkout and, because her son has special needs and an Individualized Education Program, takes issue with him being allowed to leave campus without supervision or parental authorization.
"Why didn't I get a notification that he was tardy or absent for that matter? Why didn't they even bother calling in?" mother Alexa Blasdell said.
Blasdell says her son didn't understand what the walkout was about and merely went along with the other students when they went outside.
She says the protest turned dangerous for Harley, when he couldn't keep up with the other kids, who were marching along Main Street and Route 72-Higgins Road.
Blasdell says her son called her in a panic.
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The 34-year-old mother of three is now faced with possibly having to home school her son or find another school for him.
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She should file a police report against the school for negligence.
So, the child had a phone and knew how to use it.
no big deal
She should sue the crap out of them
Not good!
When I was a sixth grader, sixth grade was in elementary school, and seventh and eighth were in junior high. I think that that was a better arrangement! Even non-special needs 11-year-olds do not belong in school with 14-year-olds!
If possible, choose a faith-based school over a public school. More likely they will keep a compassionate eye on a special needs child. Talk about the inmates running the asylum. Children wandering miles from a school. Dangerous.
Mom, I’ll give you your answer.
Your child is just the grist for Deep State’s publik skrewl diploma mills.
The question is - what did you expect from your local unionized woke public schools?
Public schools. Ugh.
The color revolution expands.
There are some Autistic children who, intellectually, are of normal intelligence, but due to their anxieties, they either refuse to speak to others outside the home, or their unpracticed pronunciation cannot be easily understood except by the family. Maybe this kid was in that situation.
It was still a dumb decision to set a wandering herd of schoolkids free on the streets w/o clear leadership or adequate supervision. That is never a good idea.
My first thought was ice protest.
Well stated. Remove your children from the machine.
what’s his “special need” ?
Mainstreaming these kids has failed.
Like, think about, like homeschooling. He might have a special need of that.
Sue the bastards running the school. You’re not sending him to the school to represent the learing azhos in the riots against ICE.
And teachers complain they don’t get paid enough!
It’s a very big deal to a parent.
If it had been his mother’s fault he was scared and alone, left behind — she’d be up on charges.
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