Concerned father says daughter has twice found way off campus of St. Johns County school

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Preston Brown urged schoolhouse committee to marque changes during meeting

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – The begetter of a 5-year-old miss made an impassioned plea to the St. Johns County School Board during its Tuesday nighttime meeting.

Preston Brown told the committee that the beingness of his daughter, who attends Freedom Crossing Academy, has doubly been enactment successful danger.

He said the archetypal clip occurred connected Oct. 13, erstwhile his girl was placed successful the incorrect enactment astatine dismissal and made her mode disconnected schoolhouse grounds, alone. He said nary 1 knew wherever she was for 30 minutes.

“A alien recovered my girl astatine an intersection a artifact distant from the campus. Thank God she was a bully alien and not a predator, and she brought our girl backmost to our house,” Brown told the board.

“The medication apologized and said it’ll ne'er hap again,” helium continued. “But conjecture what? It did.”

Brown said that past Friday, his girl was locked retired of a schoolroom aft recess. He said she was scared, ran off, and again a alien recovered her and brought her to safety.

Brown said the schoolhouse has acted to marque changes, but he’s disquieted astir different schools successful the rapidly-growing district. He urged the committee to marque changes to each St. Johns County schools.

At the extremity of the meeting, Superintendent Tim Forson addressed what Brown told the board.

“I spoke with the genitor yesterday from Freedom Crossing [Academy]. Mr. Strausbaugh (the schoolhouse information specialist) is going to spell to the school, and we’re going to locomotion backmost done each the procedures that are successful place, and past physically the site, too. As you know, it’s not each 1 size fits each connected procedures and policies, truthful we privation to marque definite we’re doing the close thing,” Forson said. “As I shared, arsenic you cognize I person a kindergarten kid and I would beryllium devastated and aggravated myself, and I cognize we person mislaid spot and that’s a dilatory rebuild, and I respect that. I recognize that I person the utmost respect for that household and the mode they are moving with america to guarantee that does not hap again, not conscionable to that kid but to immoderate kid successful our system.”