To report two infant age children walking to school alone

[ThePosieParker]

... to the head of the school.

This morning I saw two siblings (I assume) walking to school alone, the oldest looked about yr2 at the most and the youngest a reception child. I wanted to phone the school as there could be a number of reasons these children are walking alone, not all sinister but in my mind none good enough,. This is Bristol, a busy city, not the place to allow children to cross roads and negotiate traffic and people at the age of 6 or below, surely.

BuzzLightBeer Tue 25-Jan-11 18:06:33
you ask them if they are alone but not how old they are or their names? What on earth was the point of that then? I don't believe you spoke to them at all.

I did speak to them whilst waiting behind the refuse truck.

Right. I will lay my cards firmly on the table.

This happened to me.

My DD1 when she was 9 walked every weekend morning on her own up the end of our drive (in the country) and across a small country road, and down a lane to a lady she calls Granny.

This woman stopped her one day and asked her who was she, where did she come from, where was she going to . A bad man was going to come and take her away from her mummy and daddy.

10.30 am on a Sunday morning.

Said woman then phoned The Police to report my child out not even 50 yards from my front door.

How is this different to what Posie did?

I was fuming. We could see her out the front window until she was in Granny's lane.

[bshock]

I'm still not convinced that ANY of this happened outside of someone's imagination, so I'm not wasting any more time on here.

Ha! don't believe you.

Mine happened Gorg and I can tell you if I knew where that woman lived I would do her damage I really would.

The police landed to my door at about 10.45 on a Sunday morning to accuse me of inadequate parenting.

Surely children have to be allowed a sensible appropriate level of freedom? Or are we supposed to ferry them to and fro in cars all the time?

(BTW the police were very nice and totally supportive of me even though I swore a lot)

except to say, Madas you poor thing! Just saw your post. [bshock]

I really am going now..... honest...

She simply ahd no time at all to ring the school again. Plenty of time to post on here about it though. First post she said she was going to call the head of the school, then ten minutes later she had already called SS, but then it wasn't SS, and then she had waited for ages for the school...who know which is the truth?

The woman told the police that she had "connections"" and would get my children taken into care if she ever saw DD1 out on her own again.

She told the police she worked in a "child protection" capacity.

I asked the police for more information. They said they couldn't give it.

In the end I went to my local MLA (I'm in Northern Ireland) and she recieved a police caution for wasting police time. And was spoken to about approaching random children.

Should anyone wish further confirmation, if they PM me I will provide the name of the MLA who you can telephone to check.

Buzz - exactly. Did she phone school? Or SS? Or Care team?

Madas....You said your dd looked 4....

GORGE....I'm sure you're a little strange and would make something up to start a thread, I did not.

Posie - have to admit I'm with the ones who think you might be telling porkies...

Lady - I thought I had answered you, sorry.

My view is that Posie stopped the kids and engaged them in conversation, and I can't see how if she stopped to ask them other stuff she didn't ask them what class they were in.

I wouldn't have stopped if the kids weren't in obvious danger. Which as far as I can see they weren't - they were walking to school.

And does no-one else that the very last thing you would do if you were going to speak to children in the street would be to lean out of your car and say " are you alone " and nothing else? You could come across as really quite creepy.

imust.....struggling to see the relevance. A crazy woman told your dd that a bad man would take her away and threatened you with taking your child away.

Posie - DD2 looks 4 and will be 9 in less than a week.

DD1 is 12 and tall for her age.

DD1 is the one who the lady stopped.

LadyintheRadiator..I thought that Gorgeous had called a woman who another poster was talking about in 'real life' a nutter?

Posie - a woman stopped my daughter from walking in the street because she thought my decision that she was safe to walk to her "Grannys" was wrong. And she rang the police.

how is that vastly different to a woman stopping two kids walking to school and quizzing them? And ringing SS?

I was driving, driving, driving, stuck behind a refuse lorry for at least four bin collections with the bins going up and in 4 times, I was going to try and go around the fucking lorry, but the children were too close to the edge of the pavement, I looked for any sign of parents, wary of speaking to them I only wound down my window in the rain for a second and asked them if they were alone, then said be careful.

Buzz....You're coming across as someone that should step away from the PC.

Lady - if you're going to stop the kids and quiz them because you were worried that they were too young to walk to school unaccompanied, would it not be natural to ask them what age they were?