Chesterbrook Elementary School Kiss and Ride -- Get to the back of the line!!

[Anonymous]

Here's the FCDOT site with the sidewalk construction plan: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/transportation/projects/kirby-road-sidewalk

[Anonymous]

I drive along Kirby past CES often in the afternoons to pick up kids at a nearby Montessori, seems like ~99% of the parents follow the rule of right-turn only. I used to do the AM shift dropping off my kids and it was more of a clusterf with parents trying to turn left off Kirby... don't know if that is just an AM/PM difference or if the AM has improved as well per Principal's guidance... is this a new / recently-emphasized request for right-turns only?

[Anonymous]

Drove by Chesterbrook at 2:37 PM today and there were already cars in the kiss and ride loop.
This is one hour before dismissal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the FCDOT site with the sidewalk construction plan: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/transportation/projects/kirby-road-sidewalk

OMG. This is the exact spot where the kiss and ride line is the most egregious when it stacks up.

[Anonymous]

I imagine the sidewalk project will take a year+. These workers took their time on one small sidewalk in front of Chesterbrook elem.

[Anonymous]

The sidewalk project is going to pose a problem with that principal’s no left turn scheme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sidewalk project is going to pose a problem with that principal’s no left turn scheme.

Several options, none work well, but are better during the construction:

Walk students to Chesterbrook swimming pool parking lot

Have cars line up on Park

Require specific reasons for child not to take bus home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sidewalk project is going to pose a problem with that principal’s no left turn scheme.

Several options, none work well, but are better during the construction:

Walk students to Chesterbrook swimming pool parking lot

Have cars line up on Park

Require specific reasons for child not to take bus home

That one probably isn't even remotely within the principal's power

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sidewalk project is going to pose a problem with that principal’s no left turn scheme.

Several options, none work well, but are better during the construction:

Walk students to Chesterbrook swimming pool parking lot

Unfortunately, the sidewalk construction workers will be using the Chesterbrook swimming pool lot as a staging area for work trucks, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Have cars line up on Park

The residents on Park have complained in prior years about parents parking there to pick up kids from Chesterbrook. And it's an even narrower road than Kirby.

Anonymous wrote:Require specific reasons for child not to take bus home

As another poster wrote, requiring students to ride the bus is probably outside the principal's purview.

It's a challenge, for sure. I think your first suggestion, of walking students to the Chesterbrook swimming pool parking lot, is probably the best (it wouldn't be hard to organize a staging spot and to coordinate with the construction crew). It would take a few teachers or admin to walk groups of students there, and some creative, flexible thinking. Which is why it won't happen. This principal is not known for her creativity or flexibility. She is extremely risk averse.

[Anonymous]

Oh no. The construction team will use the Chesterbrook lot?? Oh no. This keeps getting worse. Several parents have been parking there and asked for their students to be walkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no. The construction team will use the Chesterbrook lot?? Oh no. This keeps getting worse. Several parents have been parking there and asked for their students to be walkers.

Of course, when they get back to their vehicles with their DC, they will opt to leave the swimming pool parking lot and make a “left hand turn”— what the principal deems as such an unsafe practice. How ironic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no. The construction team will use the Chesterbrook lot?? Oh no. This keeps getting worse. Several parents have been parking there and asked for their students to be walkers.

Of course, when they get back to their vehicles with their DC, they will opt to leave the swimming pool parking lot and make a “left hand turn”— what the principal deems as such an unsafe practice. How ironic.

The left hand turn into the Chesterbrook school parking lot during pick up and drop off time has always been treacherous. Old Chesterbrook road being so close on the opposite side of Kirby makes it more so. A left hand turn out of the Chesterbrook swimming pool is nothing in comparison.

Chesterbrook parents got a risk adverse Principal after what happened to the prior one. It took more than a year (and more than one search) to find one willing to be Principal.

If the Chesterbrook swimming pool is being use as a staging ground for the sidewalk project, maybe they can use St. Dunstan's parking lot. They can put the kids that need to be picked up on a bus and take them there, or walk them there.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if making a rule that no one can line up until 15 minutes prior to dismissal would work. They would have to enforce it.

[Anonymous]

The school could just not do kiss and ride. It could require parents to park somewhere legally, walk to the school, and pick their children up from the cafeteria or wherever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no. The construction team will use the Chesterbrook lot?? Oh no. This keeps getting worse. Several parents have been parking there and asked for their students to be walkers.

Of course, when they get back to their vehicles with their DC, they will opt to leave the swimming pool parking lot and make a “left hand turn”— what the principal deems as such an unsafe practice. How ironic.

The left hand turn into the Chesterbrook school parking lot during pick up and drop off time has always been treacherous. Old Chesterbrook road being so close on the opposite side of Kirby makes it more so. A left hand turn out of the Chesterbrook swimming pool is nothing in comparison.

Chesterbrook parents got a risk adverse Principal after what happened to the prior one. It took more than a year (and more than one search) to find one willing to be Principal.

If the Chesterbrook swimming pool is being use as a staging ground for the sidewalk project, maybe they can use St. Dunstan's parking lot. They can put the kids that need to be picked up on a bus and take them there, or walk them there.

I see a lot of parents turning around or waiting in the church lot.