A Suffolk school district is warning parents that students could have been approached by a stranger while waiting for a ride to school.

The warning comes from the principal at Deauville Gardens East Elementary School in Copiague.

Copiague resident Michele Gerdon says she was startled to learn about an email that went out to families warning them that students at the school and in neighboring communities were being approached at their bus stops and asked if they wanted a ride.

The school says it took immediate action by “asking every teacher to have a stranger/danger conversation and remind our students to never get in a car or a bus with a stranger, nor should they engage with strangers in any vehicles…”

Gerdon says the same thing happened to her children when they were younger.

“They were walking to school when it happened—so scary,” Gerdon says. “At the time it was a different world.”

Jasmine Walker’s children are two and four. She says she thinks her elder child is starting to understand the stranger/danger message, but she knows she’ll have to keep revisiting it.

“My kids get picked up right in front of our house,” Walk says. “Literally hold hands and to the bus.”

Massapequa resident Rich Arnold says he remembers the same kind of thing happening when his children were in school and says some things never change.

“Those kinds of people are out there so this kind of thing happens,” Arnold says.

School officials say they called the police as soon as they heard of the incident and reminded parents to keep having conservations with their children at home