"On Nov. 21, three children, ages 4 and 5, asked to leave Cragmont's cafeteria, where the program is primarily held, and were allowed to go to the bathroom unattended, according to a parent of one of the children, who spoke to Berkeleyside on condition of anonymity. The parent said the kids left the campus through an unfenced and poorly lit area sometime between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., heading downhill toward Marin Avenue and Spruce Street."
"A neighbor found the parent's child walking back toward campus alone and returned them to the school. The guardians of the other two children, the parent said, arrived to pick them up at school, discovered they weren't there, and reunited with their kids only after searching for them off-campus. Staff at the after-school program only realized the kids were missing when their guardians arrived to collect them, the parent said."
"Dianna Mullins, a member of Cragmont's School Site Council, said the November incident was the second time this school year that a young child has walked off the site unsupervised. She said she heard from members of the school community of a similar incident that occurred in August, when a 5yearold walked off campus and was found on Regal Road, a street adjacent to the school, by their mother."
Multiple young children left Cragmont Elementary School's campus unsupervised during the district-run LEARNS after-school program. On Nov. 21 three children, ages 4 and 5, left the cafeteria to use the bathroom unattended and exited through an unfenced, poorly lit area between 5 and 5:30 p.m., heading toward Marin Avenue and Spruce Street. A neighbor returned one child to the school and the other two children were reunited with guardians after off-campus searches. After-school staff only realized the children were missing when guardians arrived to pick them up. An earlier August incident involved a 5-year-old found on adjacent Regal Road.
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