[moovova]

If there is an emergency at my kid’s school, I fully hope AND expect the school to make EVERY effort to protect my children should I not be able to get there.

If that means transporting them to a local OR long distance location that offers safety, with OR without my permission...so be it.

I would also appreciate that the school’s admin is PRACTICING this maneuver so their efforts, in a true emergency, would go smoothly.

What’s the alternative? The school staff drops everything and runs...leaving the kids behind?

[Gennie]

This was not a REAL emergency, this was a PLANNED event. Big difference. In a planned event, parents should know where their kids are going to be in case of their OWN emergency, as well as piece of mind and because well, they being the parents. This was handled poorly. The superintendent's argument was that because the children were to remain on school buses the entire time during the drill, which is considred "school property", they did not need parental consent even though they physically moved the children from one location to another, unbeknownst to the parents.