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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious if this happens at other middle schools- for example, Jackson is very close to Mosaic.  [/quote]

DD is at Jackson.  [b]Pretty much, no one walks to school[/b], so they don't let the kids walk to the mosaic district.  I have not asked DD about it....don't want to give her ideas.[/quote]

PP, you're right re: Jackson. Few walkers.

My DD was at Jackson the past two years. I picked her up in the afternoons and parked in the school lot closest to the strip shopping center that's next to the school. At the end of each day, the school always had one of the staff out in front, at the end of the school near where the fence is, between Jackson property and that strip next door (the one with Unique Thrift). More than once I saw staffers stop kids who were heading for the gate in that fence and ask, "Do you have someone picking you up there? Why are you going that way?" etc. and find out whether the kid was walking to a car for a pickup.

So someone was, probably still is, keeping a close eye on kids who might be just walking off after school if they are heading toward that strip center next door (which is next to Mosaic). They can't and don't police every single kid, and some kids do walk off the property each day.  But I got a strong (and positive) sense that Jackson wants to discourage kids from just moseying off along Gallows Road or into that shopping center. I was glad to see the attention given and the presence of a staffer out front at that end of the building.

In fact, before my kid started at Jackson, I recall that at one of the orientation nights, the parents were told firmly by the then-principal, "There are no 'walkers' at Jackson--we expect kids to arrive by bus or be dropped off by car" and she said something about not wanting kids to just walk off.[/quote]

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