Preschooler left alone at day care for hours
Published: 10 Aug 12 07:34 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/42526/20120810/
A 4-year-old boy in Malmö was left on his own for several hours after the pre-school staff took the other kids to the theatre and forgot about him.
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Staff took the 12 pre-school children to see a theatre performance around lunchtime. When they left the school, the teachers thought that all children were accounted for, according to the paper.
It wasn’t until after the performance that they realized they were one little boy short. A member of staff ran back to the pre-school where the boy was found, calmly playing with some toys.
According to the paper, he had been asleep for most of the time, but had woken up to find himself all alone in the school.
At the local council, in charge of running the municipality pre-schools in the area, they are aghast that something like this could have happened.
“It is very serious that we forget a child this way. In this case it was because the parents had dropped the child off to us later and he had therefore not been counted with the others,” said Anders Grundström of the local council, to Sydsvenskan.
The boy and his parents have been allocated a therapist to work through what has happened and the council will investigate where the pre-school routines went wrong and if anyone needs to be held accountable for the oversight.
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One thing is for certain by the time the so called "therapist" has finished messing with their heads the whole family will be "traumatised"
yeah you read in the news he just walk up and play, fine how do they know?, anyone but the kid was there..
So ok it might be a lot of drama for not much, and maybe it went completely ok for the kid, but for now you dont know.
And they are going to investigate to see if anyone should be held accountable ?
Well it was someones mistake ! The point isn't really that the kid suffered no ill effects, it's that he was left alone in the building for several hours. This is not an adult this is a pre-school child. What if he had drunk bleach or set the place alight ? Would the authorities perhaps be looking a little harder to see if it was maybe someones mistake. I do not advocate a blame culture and I do believe people make honest mistakes, but someone carries the can even if it just means better systems put in place to ensure this is not repeated.
I imagine a kid who wakes up and see no one around screaming and banging on the door. They only start playing after they have cried out their lungs and worn themselves out. Even the bravest of kids will panic.
sais it all ready, really pissed off with this Swedish attitude,no responsibility, no accountability..
and the answer is Yes, someone should ALWAYS be accountable when something like this happens to prevent future situations like this happening happing. Instead of trying to wiggle out of it, make the people have some fear for their jobs so they actually do it correct.
Blaming the parents for dropping off a child late is NO EXCUSE for not counting correctly the first time.