Didn't Tell Us About The Crack

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"As police searched for the mother of a first-grader who passed out crack cocaine at his Chicago Heights school on Friday, believing it was candy, other parents expressed outrage Monday that they weren't notified about the incident.

'I was really upset they didn't tell us,' said Nancy Flores, 26, whose third-grader attends the public school, Lincoln. 'There are numerous things that can happen. He could have taken it home, he could have ate it.

'Thank God nothing happened . . . but they took away from us the ability to be alert,' she said, referring to school officials.

Lincoln Principal Elmer Joyce said a letter explaining the situation was being sent home with all students on Monday, and one wasn't sent out earlier for several reasons.

'By the time everything had been settled [on Friday] . . . school was over,' Joyce said. 'And we didn't really know exactly what the substance was; it hadn't been tested.'

Besides, police had asked the school to stay mum 'because it was an open investigation,' he said."