Dismissal procedures - walkers - elementary

[Anonymous]

Walkers and car-riders are dismissed separately. Kindergarten and first-grade walkers get individually handed to parents, and the teachers will wait with the kid until the parent arrives. 2nd grade and up the kids just get sent out the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah..a really small school..My ES has over 800. It couldn't happen there. Though we do not have such a low bus rider rate either so that would make it easier.

Our elementary school has over 800 and we have the same procedures (numbered car tags, walkie-talkies, etc). It is very efficient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walkers and car-riders are dismissed separately. Kindergarten and first-grade walkers get individually handed to parents, and the teachers will wait with the kid until the parent arrives. 2nd grade and up the kids just get sent out the door.

Same at my son's school. K and 1st graders go to one K room at the end of the day and are dismissed by the teachers in charge once they see the parent/babysitter waiting outside. The 2nd-5th graders are let out another door and a teacher or two stand there to wait around in case any of them are not claimed. Then they will send them to the office to wait. But the 2nd-5th graders are just let out and if they don't come back, it is assumed they are fine. The two teachers don't exactly know who picks them up. Most of the parents for those students wait on the side of the building or in their cars alongside the building.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

Is this at a public school?

Yes, an MCPS school.

They used to do it like that at RHPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

Is this at a public school?

Yes, an MCPS school.

They used to do it like that at RHPS.

Not any more. My kids are bus-riders at RHPS but I was sort of surprised at how little supervision there was for walkers. At least in my (somewhat limited) there is no real oversight over who takes whom. No numbers, no checking whatsoever. I have to admit that I wondered if this was a function of the fact that at least some of the families who are walkers are probably the least empowered and least likely to demand careful scrutiny.