ORLANDO, Fla. – A mom is demanding answers from her child's school after her 5-year-old daughter walked off campus unnoticed.
Lakeysha Daye said her daughter left Orange Center Elementary School Tuesday with another classmate without permission.
She didn't find out until she went to pick her up.
"In those moments the panic started," Daye said. "I am thinking the worst. You know, as a parent you don't expect to get to your child's school and they are missing."
Daye met with the school's principal Friday morning.
The principal told her she had a meeting with all kindergarten teachers about what happened Tuesday.
She was told her daughter, who is a regular car rider, left the campus with another classmate and the classmate's cousin.
"She explains to me that a parent called and said that my daughter is at their home," Daye said.
The principal picked her daughter up from the home and brought her back to the campus to meet her mom.
Daye said she has yet to be told specifically whose house her daughter went to, where it's at or when exactly she left campus.
"How did this happen? They have a procedure and policy that each child before they leave the school is accounted for and someone at the gate is supposed to say, 'OK, these are car riders. These are kids that walk home.' That didn't happen," Daye said.
A representative with Orange County Schools said a policy change has been made after Tuesday's incident and they are investigating what happened.
The policy change involves adding a number of attendance checkpoints before, during and after the dismissal process.
In addition, the two dismissal lines will not form in the same hallway.