Chesterbrook Elementary School Kiss and Ride -- Get to the back of the line!!
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Anonymous
| Why don't the kids take the bus? |
Anonymous
OF COURSE the school is short staffed. ALL the schools are short staffed. This has nothing to do with parents who don't follow kiss and ride rules. |
Anonymous
Nobody is making a u-turn on Kirby. They are turning around in the pool or church parking lots. |
Anonymous
Seriously. Let your precious children take the bus. Why would someone wait for 45 minutes in a dangerous line? |
Anonymous
the bus was required to do 2 complete loops starting from the school which means that some kids don’t get home until 5pm + So… more parents than ever are picking up kids themselves this school year |
Anonymous
there are lots of u turns but mostly done by commuters who unknowingly are driving along Kirby and then suddenly get stuck behind a really long KnR parent line which has no room to pull off onto the side of the road. In response, the commuters start doing lots of quick jerk reaction u-turns to double back and get off of Kirby |
Anonymous
| At least they are not like the McLean high school parents who double park on westbury road and then make uturns in the middle of the street while school buses are trying to make their way down the street and kids are riding there bikes or skateboarding in the middle of the street without helmets! Ughhh! |
Anonymous
That is fixed now. No bus routes are taking that long. Your precious child can take the bus. |
Anonymous
| More instructions are coming out from the school today regarding KnR... |
Anonymous
“Kiss N Ride Updates First of all, a huge thank you for your collaboration and efforts to help us with getting kids to and from school safely. We all know safety is our collective priority. Our student patrols have been instrumental in helping us expedite drop off in the morning. Adding students around the loop has allowed us to have more help unloading students quickly and safely. The request not to turn left into the lot from the opposite side of Kirby is simply a principal's request to keep traffic flowing down Kirby and not block the roadway as cars are hanging out into oncoming traffic. Mrs. Kirkpatrick has consistently been working with our Safety and Security specialist to provide the best guidance for our families with respect to efficiency and safety of our staff and students. While principals do not control traffic laws, we do make requests to help our community function better. If there are no cars that would block your ability to pull in, by all means make the left safely and enter the kiss and ride line. It's really all about making our kiss n ride work as best it possibly can and working together we can all make that happen. Pickup of Students in the Afternoon Cars are lining up WAY TOO EARLY! There is no reason to line up 45 minutes to an hour early to pick up your child from school. We are also then blocking Kirby Road and this creates a barrier to safe traffic flow for our community, which extends beyond Chesterbrook Elementary parents. We ask cars to arrive no earlier than 3:30 for our 3:35 dismissal. We have been able to load cars in no less than 15 minutes, which is a great record. Using your last name car tag, helps us expedite pickup as we call names and get your kids cued in line and ready. Please help our neighbors by not blocking Kirby to wait in line for dismissal. Kiss N Ride Line Up Should Begin at 3:30PM. Thank you for working with this guidance.” |
Anonymous
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BWAH HAH HAH HA!
Principal wants folks to line up beginning at 3pm now. Let's see how that goes... |
Anonymous
| ^^I mean 3:30pm |
Anonymous
My guess, that they will put orange cones blocking the entrance to Kiss and Ride and then remove them at 3:30. |
Anonymous
*Hitting head against wall* - this is because kids aren’t ON the bus. Once all the kids who are walking or doing KnR start taking the bus again, it will take longer to on and off load them. |
Anonymous
There aren't fewer stops just because your kid isn't on the bus. The bus does not stop at every house. Clearly your kid has never taken the bus. Cut the cord and let her/him take the bus. Traffic problem solved. |