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Navy Elementary New Principal
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Anonymous
Yeah totally not what I said. Just don't close off the parking lot so people are forced to make U-turns or enter the wrong way. The parking lot is not designed well and the bus schedules can be highly inefficient for some. Make it easier and not harder. |
Anonymous
| Navy parents being Navy parents. |
Anonymous
I disagree. The parking lot was becoming very unsafe. Last year there were so many near accidents because of reckless parents barreling into the lot and crossing the exit of the kiss n ride line over to the west ox lot or parents coming from the west ox lot crossing over in front of the kiss n ride line into the parking lot. It blocked the kiss n ride line from flowing smoothly and made it take much longer. Parents need to stop parking and walking their kids in in the morning. There is absolutely no reason to do this - this is not preschool. Stay in your car and let your poopsie out onto the sidewalk and let her/him walk in alone and then leave. Also parents need to stop taking lefts from Thompson onto West Ox (no light) which backs up Thompson. Take a right and do a Uturn at the next light instead. |
Anonymous
Why were they forced to? Why do they need to park? They need to go through the kids b ride line like everyone else or have their kids take the bus. |
Anonymous
The line last year could exceed 20 minutes and backs up all the way to misty creek lane which is roughly .4 miles. The way they position the sign that designates where to off load children typically lets 4 cars at most drop off, which causes others to look for other places in line to drop off which ruins the flow. The buses are unreliable and the driver turnover is huge. My kids had 5 different drivers last year and the bus was routinely 20 minutes late to pickup. Afternoon bus routes were more reliable. |
Anonymous
Well when parents are waiting 30 min twice per day in the kiss and ride line instead of letting their kids ride a bus that picks them up and drops them back off very close to home, it's hard to understand. I guess it's stay at home parents who need to feel like they're doing something important. I don't have time for that. |
Anonymous
I don’t think you use the kiss n ride line much then. 2 cars alone fit in front of the crosswalk. But of course entitled Navy parents don’t move up because they want to be right in front of the door, so they usually only do one car in front of the crosswalk. More than 4 cars can definitely drop off, it’s the just the idiot parents don’t let their kids out too far away because they want to get as close to the school so their poopsies don’t have to walk so far. They are the problem. That and the aides who stand there with coffee and gab to other staff members with their backs to the line and don’t tell the cars to move up in front of the crosswalk. Hopefully with the new guy they will actually do their job. |
Anonymous
I use the kiss and ride nearly every morning last year. And my kids would get out near the sign at the top of the hill rather than be stuck waiting at the bottom. The flow of traffic there is horrendous. Thats why you would see so many parents park all on the grass on thompson coming from both directions, because they don't want their kids to be late. |
Anonymous
| So back to PM kiss and ride, are they essentially shutting off the parking lot to parents unless you illegally enter through the exit? Because I feel like they tried to do that last year or the year before but then realized very quickly that it was a complete cluster and opened the west ox entrance straight back up the next day. It makes sense for the AM to shut it. Not for PM. Although that said, there should be a cut off time of when you can enter. Like 5 minutes before the kids get dismissed, no more cars should be allowed to enter that way. |
Anonymous
Yes, you are the voice of reason, and I agree with everything you said. |
Anonymous
Staff will not be able to get out there to stop them from coming in. They have to be at the actual kiss n ride line. |
Anonymous
Who waits 30 min?! If you to get to kiss n ride by 8:25 am there is absolutely no line and you breeze right through. And in the pm, show up near the end and same thing. No wait at all. |
Anonymous
They don’t have to be. You send out and email or put a big sigh at the west ox entrance that says “no entrance between x and x time”. 99% of parents will follow the rules. For the few parents who can’t read or think that the rules don’t apply to them, you put someone where the PE teachers were yesterday morning, and any cars that try to sneak through, make them back up, turn around and get into the kiss and ride line like everyone else. |
Anonymous
Did that make you feel important saying that? Grow tf up. |
Anonymous
In PM there is. Parents start lining up way before 3pm. Perhaps they should not allow anyone to line up prior to 325. Next, the school needs to differentiate between pm and am. The cones are probably ok for am but not really for PM. If anything, from a logistical standpoint, the cones slow things down by only allowing one way to exit and it's a very sharp 180degree turn. Also, instead of cars taking up space in the parking lot, they will be idling on Thompson and Misty Creek, inconveniencing the people who live there. Let's see how long this lasts, but I give it a week. They tried this once before and it only lasted a week or two tops. |