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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More instructions are coming out from the school today regarding KnR...

“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.”

Was this an actual communication from the school? If so, they clearly read this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't the kids take the bus?

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

That is fixed now. No bus routes are taking that long. Your precious child can take the bus.

*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.

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.

You're not very smart are you. Fewer children = shorter loading times. That saves time.

Everyone in our neighborhood stopped taking the bus after the disaster that was the first two weeks. The bus drives through but never has to stop because there are no kids waiting and no kids to drop off in the afternoon (they stop in the afternoon but no one gets off, so they keep going). If you don't understand how this makes the bus rides shorter and reduces the need for busses to double back, then, I don't know, take a supply chain class or something to understand the flow of goods/children through a system.

[Anonymous]

why are they using 10 and 11 year okdsto direct traffic? this is clearly not what an real safety specialist would want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More instructions are coming out from the school today regarding KnR...

“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.”

Was this an actual communication from the school? If so, they clearly read this thread.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why are they using 10 and 11 year okdsto direct traffic? this is clearly not what an real safety specialist would want.

They aren't using 10-12 year-olds to direct traffic. The message refers to the patrols. At Chesterbrook, as at many other FCPS elementary schools, the patrols stand on the sidewalks around the Kiss 'N Ride loop with several teachers, and they open passenger-side back doors to let the young riders out. It speeds up the unloading in the morning and loading in the afternoon and gives the 6th graders some useful responsibility and leadership opportunities. It is very well done.

[Anonymous]

"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."

How did it go yesterday afternoon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"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."

How did it go yesterday afternoon?

The email came out yesterday close to the end of the school day, so today's afternoon kiss and ride will be the first chance to see if there is any change...

[Anonymous]

^^

Ok, looking to hearing about improvement.

Signed,

A Kirby Road daily user/neighbor.

[Anonymous]

Drove by at 2:38pm and witnessed a mom make a *left turn* into the KnR loop and pull up all the way to the front spot. So, either she didn’t get the memo or doesn’t care, but still is lining up close to one hour before dismissal. Dismissal is at 3:35pm.
The line still backs up Kirby after 3:35pm. Commuters still flying around the queue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drove by at 2:38pm and witnessed a mom make a *left turn* into the KnR loop and pull up all the way to the front spot. So, either she didn’t get the memo or doesn’t care, but still is lining up close to one hour before dismissal. Dismissal is at 3:35pm.
The line still backs up Kirby after 3:35pm. Commuters still flying around the queue.

The Asst. Principal needs to go out there and shoo those early arrivals off. Don't they have the authority to do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drove by at 2:38pm and witnessed a mom make a *left turn* into the KnR loop and pull up all the way to the front spot. So, either she didn’t get the memo or doesn’t care, but still is lining up close to one hour before dismissal. Dismissal is at 3:35pm.
The line still backs up Kirby after 3:35pm. Commuters still flying around the queue.

The Asst. Principal needs to go out there and shoo those early arrivals off. Don't they have the authority to do that?

yeah. They should put up some orange cones until closer to 3:30pm.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday had to swing dangerously wide around Tesla dad letting DD out on Park Street. That’s another treacherous spot that principal has created with new rules. Park St has no shoulder as well. The Dad’s car was barely pulled off the road. And, now DD had to get out and walk from there as he hoisted her book bag out from outstretched Tesla wings…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday had to swing dangerously wide around Tesla dad letting DD out on Park Street. That’s another treacherous spot that principal has created with new rules. Park St has no shoulder as well. The Dad’s car was barely pulled off the road. And, now DD had to get out and walk from there as he hoisted her book bag out from outstretched Tesla wings…

The Principal has not created that spot. It has always been there and had always been used- for decades.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the Principal could delay the Kiss and Ride for 15 minutes until all the busses are loaded and gone. Then start the Kiss and Ride. Maybe that would push more parents to use the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the Principal could delay the Kiss and Ride for 15 minutes until all the busses are loaded and gone. Then start the Kiss and Ride. Maybe that would push more parents to use the bus.

that’s interesting…