Question

I was fired from my job today. I was a head teacher in a preschool. I had two assistants one of our children got out of the building. One assistnat said she was putting the cots away, one was talking to a parent I was watching the child who escaped. He had been trying to get out of the room all day, I left his side for a minute than had to take achild to the bathroom, apparently the escapee left in a group of children and parents. He was unnoticed by my class staff but seen by a teacher from another room. When called I went after him another teacher found him out side. Two days later my staff and I were sent home pending an investigation. Eight days later I was fired they were not. I could see if all were fired but I was the only one the scapegoat. I feel this was unfair. I spent eight days in limbo, and had been told we were a team, yet I am the one fired. I was watching nine other children while one assistant was in the hall the other in the door talking to a parent. I have been unfa