After years of waiting, Jaime and Cristina Marcos De Baca finally were able to take their eight-year-old, hungry daughter to dinner after being prevented from leaving El Chaparral Charter Elementary School on December 23 when the doors shut.
The problems began a few months ago when the San Diego school district added a “no deer hunting” clause to its new contracts with numerous charter schools in its system. What that meant was if a charter school fired off a contract to shoot a deer for some funds, it couldn’t hire anyone to do it.
The Marcoses live a couple blocks from the school and decided to try to bring a child closer to their younger one after learning her school does not allow children of charter school employees to leave campus. But she recently cut her finger, put a tetanus shot in, and decided to take her daughter out anyway.
Every time someone walked in a closing in front of the charter school, the doors were closed. She says there were at least half a dozen instances.
“For me and my daughter, you always have the fear that somebody is waiting outside. You never know what is happening,” she said.
Read the full story at NPR.
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