Troy School District Preschool

R 400.8125 · R 400.8125 Staff; volunteer; requirements. (1) All staff and volunteers shall provide appropriate care and supervision of children at all times. 4

On 12/08/2021, Ms. Stanko emailed an incident report, and according to the incident report, at 11:55 a.m., on 12/07/2021 Child A's class was at recess on the playground. During line up and entering the building, Child A was not accounted for in the count. Ms. Reimann discovered her at the door, upset a few minutes after her class entered the building. Ms. Reimann walked her to her class. 2 On 12/13/2021, Ms. Bairaboena said she is the substitute lead caregiver for the classroom. When she took her lunch break from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Ms. Seman and Ms. Kurnade took the children outside for recess. There were 16 children present in the classroom when she left the classroom. When the children returned to the classroom, she saw Ms. Seman and Ms. Kurnade talking and counting the children as they were taking off their coats. Ms. Seman said she believed there was a child missing. Ms. Bairaboena began completing a head count. While she was completing the head count, some of the children were taking off their coats, some children were washing their hands to prepare for lunch, and some children were still standing by their cubbies located outside of the classroom. Ms. Reimann brought Child A to the classroom while Ms. Bairaboena was completing the head count. She does not know how long Child A was outside unattended. The children line up to go inside from recess at 11:25 a.m. It takes approximately five to six minutes to transition the children from recess back to the classroom. The children eat lunch at 11:30 a.m. Before the children go outside for recess, the children sit on the carpet and the playground rules are reviewed with them. The children stand in line in the hallway and the child care staff members complete a head count multiple times. When the children go back inside from recess, the child care staff members complete a head count twice. Ms. Reimann stated she is not a child care staff member in Child A's classroom. She saw Child A standing alone on the playground next to the door when she went to get the lunch cart for her class, which was near the door that leads to the playground. She asked Child A her classroom number and took her to the classroom at 11:35 a.m. When they arrived in the classroom, the children were inside the classroom getting ready for lunch. No children were in the hallway or taking off their coats. The child care staff members said, "Oh, what happened?" She told them what happened, and they continued to prepare for lunch. Before the children go outside in Ms. Reimann's classroom, Ms. Reimann lines the children up near the door and she completes a head count. Before the children go back inside the building from being outside, Ms. Reimann completes another head count. Ms. Seman stated she is a child care staff member and went to Child A's classroom to relieve Ms. Bairaboena for her lunch break. The children went outside from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Before the children went outside for recess, she counted 16 children. When she completed her head count of the children before they went back inside the building, she counted 15 children. She told Ms. Kurnade that "something was not right." She and Ms. Kurnade walked the children back to the classroom. When they went to the classroom, she told Ms. Bairaboena that they were missing a child because she counted 15 children. Ms. Bairaboena called out some of the children's names but not all the names. Ms. Bairaboena then said, "yeah we have 16." She stated she still felt as if something was not correct with the head count. None of the child care staff members went to look for Child A. Ms. Bairaboena said that she could leave because she had to relieve another child care staff member for lunch. She was not present when Child A returned to the classroom. Ms. Stanko told her Child A was missing after she left the classroom. Ms. Seman completes a head 3 count of the children before they go outside. Before the children go back inside the building from being outsid

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