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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're at a Title 1 DCPS and have the same policy, OP. Though they no longer refer to it as &quot;Covid protocol.&quot; They just don't want parents in the building.

We are allowed in for special events but, for instance, if my kid has a doctor's appointment, I have to tell the security guard at the front door that I'm there to pick her up, and then she is retrieved and brought to the front door to me. And when I drop her back off, I can't walk her to her classroom or even enter the building -- I drop her with the security guard and she walks to her classroom alone. She's in kindergarten.

I hate it. I get limiting how much time parents spend in the building because you can get overzealous parents who are around all the time and disrupting classes or just clogging up hallways. And I understand having security protocols in place and making sure any adult entering the building is actually a parent and has a reason to be there.

We started school during Covid so I have no idea if it was like this before.[/quote]

There is literally no reason why you should be able to pick your daughter up from class or walk her back to class after a doctors appointment. What you described is exactly how a school should work. [/quote]

I think it's weird that a parent can't even enter the building. I would be find with a policy where you walk your kid into the front office and then  they either walk to their class alone or get escorted, once the admin has confirmed that the class is in the classroom (they could be at a special or at recess).

[b]I also think that on a case-by-case basis, a parent might walk a young kid to the classroom, say if there is something they need to inform the teacher of regarding the child's absence (like if my kid just got a flu vaccine I might want to tell their teacher so they understand if he seems low energy). Yes, I can text the teacher or send a note with my kid, but I could see in certain situations where it would be useful of the parent to just drop the child off directly.[/b]

There are ways to limit parents in schools without having a policy that requires them to hand their children off to a security guard at the door. It's a very cold and impersonal way of interact with families, IMO.[/quote]

i think this it nuts and i am a certified helicopter parents. my kids started in DCPS in 2009 and parents were never allowed to walk kids to class/retrieve them from class in any of the schools they went to (Murch, Deal, Wilson when it was Wilson and now JR). kids had to be dropped off or picked up from the main office by the front door&gt; the idea of walking a kid to class to talk to the teacher is just crazy. you may interrupt the teacher while she is teaching kids, or talking to another parent who had an appointment. a teacher in DCPS is normally super busy during the day at school and I dont even understand how you can think that the teacher should there at any time ready to listen to you during the work day. I had a kid with high anxiety who had in a few occasions to leave class because of a specific trigger and it never occurred to me to show up at school to talk to the teacher. i always communicated by email and, when needed, i requested an appointment. especially in elementary school, adults should not be allowed to roam around the school with kids who are 4 or 5 going to bathroom or walking in the hallways.  I know wiht the new Maga theme &quot;all power to the parents&quot; some people think they should be able to do what they want with schools but this is crazy. no parents in schools please, unless they are approved volunteers in some school program or unless there is an event open to the parents.

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