Cinnaminson Nursery School Owner Strives to Keep Her Charges Safe

Audrey Kearns, of Cinnamon Sticks Learning Center, says the most important job in the world is being responsible for children.

  Audrey Kearns will stop working and watch if a strange car pulls into the driveway of Cinnamon Sticks Learning Center, the school she owns and runs on Route 130 North. And pedestrians walking the highway just outside of the perimeter of the school better keep moving.  Surveillance of the property is monitored with cameras, all doors are kept locked, and only authorized adults can pick up a child, checked against a consent list that’s strictly monitored, with parents called if there’s doubt about a pick up. In light of the Sandy Hook shootings last December, and the removal of a young girl from a public school in Philadelphia in early January, Kearns said she and her staff must be ever vigilant to unfamiliar people near her school. “It’s …

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