Bingo. My son attends a private school and they have similar security protocols.
When parents divorce, as so many do these days, and are battling for custody of the child, abductions from school by one of the parents is a real problem a school has to deal with.
Yes, and that’s why we explain it for the others who may not be familiar with all the necessary things that schools must do in order to see that the child continues to be in as safe an environment as possible and gets handed off to the right person.
The case in the article is not a child custody case. The child was in no danger of abduction.