Posting for some perspective as I'm feeling really, really uncomfortable with something that happened yesterday and sometimes suffer from bad anxiety and OCD so have to check sometimes that I'm not over reacting.
Ds goes to a very very small preschool/nursery.
There's four kids in the younger room (from 6 months to 2.5 years) and then in his class there's a maximum of 8 2.5 year olds to 4 year olds. But it's a really informal school so nobody is tied to days so there's normally 6 of them there.
There's one 2.5 year old, the others are all 4 years now.
Yesterday I didn't take ds as we'd gone away but spoke to a friend who said she driven to pick her son up before lunch and the kids were walking along the road.
There was the 2.5 year old and 4 4 year olds. They were all holding hands and only one of the teachers was with them. The walk they were doing was probably ten minutes and through the busiest part of 'town'. Parking either side of the road and big trucks and work vans reversing in to the road from the parking spots. Speed limit is 25mph
There is no pavement, just a think strip of grass.
I kind of flipped out a little when she told me. In my eyes it is absolutely not ok to trust kids of that age to hold hands on a busy road and there should have been at least 2 adults.
I've told them ds can be really unreliable around traffic (he's run out in front of cars a few times recently, we're working on it) so I'm assuming they would have been holding his hand if he were there too but it's still making my blood run cold. I think this is too much of a risk for kids their age.
My other issue is that the parents weren't told they were taking a little outing that day. We often aren't. I don't think it's appropriate. I feel at this age I'd like to know where they are! I feel maybe I'm be unreasonable though.
And if people do think inbu how on Earth do I broach it? We live in a VERY small community. The teacher is very popular and best friends with a couple of the other Mums. I would make myself extremely unpopular by saying anything and I'm already quite an outsider as it is.