One of my DDs works at the Indianapolis Zoo. It is end of the year field trip time. She was at the exit stamping hands when a little boy approaches her from the parking lot side of the exit and asks her if she has seen anyone from whatever the name school. Turns out, he got left behind!
DD calls security and they take it from there. His school was indeed there today and they had indeed left. Security calls the school and of course the Principal is pretty shaken up. (She called later to apologize if she was short/rude with anyone who called).
Fortunately, there is a school next store to the one this little boy attends and they were also there. The little boy rode back with them.
As a mom, I have chaperoned quite a number of field trips, knew the number of kids I was supposed to have with me, what their names were, and a head count was done first by me as we got on the bus, and then by the teacher prior to leaving.
Can you imagine being that principal and having to call the parents? Can you imagine that teacher facing the principal to explain his/herself?
Hell, when we out to train and it was time to go home, everyone of my Soldiers HAD to be accounted for before we left the area, and HAD to call me when they arrived home. Then I HAD to call the Commander or First Sergeant with a report. Hell, those were adults, this kid had come from the far end of the zoo, alone, and out the exit before asking my daughter for help.
I know we all make mistakes, but this one.... I can only imagine the terror of the parents and the principal.
Some teacher is not having a good night, and whoever the chaperon was, they shouldn't be allowed to do that again.