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The Wichita school district has a protocol meant to prevent unauthorized visitors from contacting students. But it wasn’t followed earlier this month at Gordon Parks Elementary when a man entered the school twice and made contact with a student without permission.
Michael Arnold, 36, was charged last week with stalking after entering Gordon Parks Academy twice — once on Monday, March 9, and again on Tuesday, March 10 — and making verbal and physical contact with a 13-year-old girl without her parents’ permission…