Mom says special needs student left unattended at Raleigh elementary school: ‘I want to know why’

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — It was a Wake County mother’s worst nightmare on Monday afternoon: Her son was left alone in an empty Raleigh elementary school.

Jasmine Watkins said her 10-year-old son Makari, a fourth-grader with special needs at Joyner Magnet Elementary School, called her after school on Monday unsure of what was happening. Watkins told ABC11 that Makari typically uses a special transportation service that carries four to six students every day, but when she got home from work Monday, Makari was nowhere to be found.

“I want to know what happened. I want to know why my son was left here in the school by himself,” Watkins said.

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