Readers of this blog may or may not have experience with the above.
Pick up and drop off patterns are the way children are dropped off to school or picked up in the afternoon. I hate them.
My oldest son’s school has one and the cars pull up and kids are escorted in and out of the car by staff or parent volunteers.
I can’t stand the parents who pull up and park and get their kid out the car. The drop off is for just that.
They send tons of notes home explaining this maze however parents still disobey the rules.
I once drove over the yellow lines prior to having any knowledge they were off limits and my door was snatched open by the parent. I could not hear her because I was to busy trying to catch my laptop from falling out the door. Hey once I know the rules I follow them.
Parents also sit in their cars until the child has walked in the building. Just escort them in please.
Where did these things come from?
I think they cause more headache then help sometimes. What happened to the old way?
New does not always mean better. Did you survive elementary school without them? I am open for comments on this one for research purposes.
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My sister and I walked to school, but our elementary school had something similar. For pick-up, the kids would line up on the sidewalk behind a yellow line, and teachers and volunteers stood in front of the yellow line. The parents had a special sticker on their windshield that identified them as a parent/guardian/trusted adult, and they pulled up to the curb in a line and the teachers would ask who they were there to pick up, etc. It was a nightmare, which is why my mom made us walk home most of the time. In the event that someone else had to pick the child up from school, the parent had to call the school and the person that picked them up had to have identification handy.
ReplyDeleteDrop off was easier -- once your car made it up to the yellow-line area, you just let them out and they walked up to the door. We had to wait outside until the bell rang unless it was really cold or rainy, and the fifth-grade "Service Squad" acted as door captains and made sure all the little kids stayed in their respective classroom lines.
considering I have experienced the pick-up system, it is messed-up. it's funny how schools spend so much time figuring out these systems and they usually are a big chunk of clusterf***
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