Can a child escape from your school?

[manicinsomniac]

If you work at and/or have a child at a school - is it possible for a child to get out?

Deliberately being hugely vague on details here but recently a child of 11 ran away from our school and was returned by a member of the public. I thought the school would be in loads of trouble but that doesn't seem to be the case.

AIBU to think it ought to be impossible (or at least very difficult) - or would that mean restricting children's freedom too much?

I'm just scared to think of what could have happened.

11 in a primary school or secondary school?

I think tbh by 11 they need to take some responsibility for themselves.

I expect through climbing over fences or crawling through a hedge it would probably be possible even though the gates are padlocked.

I'd be pissed at the 11 yr old not the school

easily

The primary school in went to many, many moons ago had no perimeter fence around its grounds. And still doesn't. Not heard of a child "escaping" from it!

Primary school 11, no way. Locked fences.

Secondary 11, yep easily.

Yes, easily and we aren't allowed to stop them physically. It would be noticed I hope though!

yes - but secondary school and we would be pissed at the 11 year old. However, it would be spotted fairly quickly that they were missing and not accounted for as we take registers every lesson.

Nope not at all locked gates all around and fob keypads on every door.

That's a primary btw for 4-12 year olds

My DS escaped from his ms school a few times. He can't get out of his sn school though.
I work in a ms primary and some of older kids would be tall enough to push the door button and escape if they wanted to. Younger children wouldnt be able to escape.

Depending on timing- yes.

Gates are locked, and you need to be buzzed in- but there's no buzz out. Just a latch. Be easy enough to get out if there was no one on reception.

If they were old and cunning enough to get out, they'd prob be fine to walk home. It's not like 4 year olds walking under traffic.

I know the ins and outs of a couple of primary schools and it would not be impossible for children to leave the grounds.

Yes it would be quite easy at our school as the doors are opened by pressing a button and only one of the doors is visible from reception. Also DCs go back and forth from one building to another so even if reception did see them leave, they wouldn't necessarily stop them.

It's a primary and a secondary combined but this child is Y6

Yes-with no difficulty

Yes, depending on timing.

primary btw

Only if they could scale a 10ft fence

Primary school

Yes, not easily but determined 11 year olds can. Infants wouldn't be able to.

If my 4yo got out of school, I'd be livid with the school, if my older DC had got out in Y6 I'd have been livid with him.

somewhere you couldn't escape from would be called......a prison

It is possible for a child who has thought about it and is trying. It's a school not a prison. If a child is that set on escaping then I wonder if a mainstream school is the right place for them.

Schools aren't prisons. Generally children are kept in because it's 'the rules' as opposed to because there is a 6ft barbed wire fence.

This works for 95% of kids. There has to be a sense of personal responsibility. An 11 year old should know better than to 'escape'.