*If you have questions, please contact the individual schools directly. Thank you!
Dear Parents,
For the most part carpool pick-up and drop-off is improving rapidly and we are reducing our times for each substantially. Today we substantially finished Junior High drop-off only one minute after the morning bell; we finished pick-up in 15 minutes. At the Elementary drop-off is going well and pick up was largely complete in about 20 minutes. We can do better than this and do still have some safety concerns we need to address. Please help us with the following items that are still causing problems:
Parents with Junior High and Elementary students
· Please do not arrange to have your Junior High student pick up their Elementary sibling and then meet you at the Elementary unless they are just picking up the student to walk home. For security reasons we will not be allowing Junior High students in the Elementary building after school. (We have already found that having students meet and then get in their parents cars at the Elementary, it slows down our pick-up process substantially and causes safety concerns). We will not be allowing parents to pick-up kids from both schools at the Elementary. We will allow Junior High students to meet their Elementary siblings and then walk home from there IF parents send their Elementary students with a hand-written note giving the school permission to release their Elementary students to their siblings. Junior High students may only meet the Elementary students on the grass behind the bike rack and must exit the property immediately after meeting their siblings. If Junior High students cause any disruption to the Elementary students they will not be allowed on-site at the Elementary at all.
Junior High Parents
· DO NOT let your students off in the morning on Mt. Ogden Peak Drive. Not only does this put your student in danger, but it blocks up traffic behind you and causes a safety hazard for other parents and students. We are going to ask our local police officials to ticket when they see this happening.
· Please pull forward during both drop-off and pick-up to the top of the loading lane. (Pull as close as you can to the dumpsters at the top of the lane). This will allow us to get students and cars through quickly and safely. Also, do not direct or allow your students to get into your car anywhere other than on that red-striped loading lane. Students walking in-between parked cars and being hit by an oncoming passing car is one of our greatest safety concerns.
Elementary Parents
· Please DO NOT arrive early at the Elementary for drop-off in the morning. We are having a substantial number of kids at the school before we have people to supervise available. Drop-off is from 7:30-8:00, please try to drop your students during this time.
· Also, please DO NOT arrive early to pick students up in the afternoon. Because parents are stacking in front of the Elementary, we are now overflowing onto Mt. Ogden Peak Drive and blocking traffic there. This is blocking Junior High parents from being able to pick-up their students on time and obstructing the street for neighbors as well. This is an area of great concern for us, and for the City. To that end, if you arrive before 2:55 to pick-up your elementary student, or if we have cars stacking onto Mt. Ogden Peak before the dismissal bell rings, we will be asking you to leave the school and come back during the appropriate time. Please know that pick-up will go faster if you just arrive on-time.
Thank you all for your assistance, patience and ongoing support!
