Mother upset after school orders son to walk home
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (WSVN) -- The mother of an elementary school student is furious and demanding answers after her son's school sent him to walk home alone without her permission.
Tramaine Clayton says her 8-year-old son, Trevon Davis, usually takes the bus home from school. "He never walks home. He has never walked home at all," said Clayton.
But, last week, the boy's school told the wrong kid to walk home. According to his mother, an employee at Laura C. Saunders Elementary called Trevon to the school's office an hour before school ended and handed him a note telling him to walk to a relative's house. "I went to the office and they gave me a paper that said, 'Walk to your sister's house,'" Davis said. "Then I told the lady that my sister's house is far, then she said she didn't care, 'Walk home.'"
Clayton said her son said he tried to explain to the employee that his sister lives in Atlanta, but he was ordered to leave the school anyway. Clayton said a family friend luckily found Trevon walking, a block in the wrong direction home and gave him a ride.
School officials eventually realized that sending Davis home was a mistake when another parent called the school. The school claims the employee got the second grader mixed up with a fifth grader with a similar name. "We are extremely concerned, it was an error," said Felipe Noguera of the Miami-Dade County School District. "The school policy is that a child of any grade is not supposed to be released unless a parent comes and signs out, shows identification and then accompanies the child from the premises."
Although the school takes responsibility for the mistake, Clayton says she does not know how they could just send her son out on his own. "I was real upset because it just shocked me, like nothing had ever happened like this before," she said. "I was like, 'I was just surprised you would release him like that, just send him walking home like that'. What if he, you know, could have been kidnapped or anybody could have picked him up, or he could have just come up missing?"
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