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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kids are 10 & 11, and you live in-boundary for Janney, why not make the kids walk to school?  (Or if you don't live close enough for them to walk from your house, why not drop them someplace convenient & ask them to walk from there?)  I wouldn't ask an 11 year old to do the walk solo, but with a close-in-age sibling I would call it safe (particularly in Tenleytown...).

Regarding aggressive parking enforcement, I suspect that it's in response to neighborhood complaints.  People living near Janney need to get to work, or get their kids to school, and streets are less congested when (certain) parking regulations are adhered to.[/quote]

This.  I am a Janney parent and I think that the no parking signs in front of Janney should be strictly enforced.  I feel for the non-Janney people who need to get to Wisconsin via Albemarle in the morning.  The line of traffic goes sometimes goes all the way to 43rd street all becasue of the people who feel that they have the right to parking in front of the school bc they cant be bothered to walk a few blocks. [/quote]

There are other streets.  I go this way in the morning and I choose to take Yuma instead of Albermarle for this very reason so I do not really feel for the masses that choose to take Albermarle when they do not have a child to drop off.

The one thing I find unclear in the Principal's letter is exactly when is it okay to drop your child off.  My DH drops off my first grader every morning, he generally leaves our house between 8:20/8:25 and drops her off between 8:25/8:30.  Jamboree starts at 8:35, is it okay to drop off within the 10 minutes prior to Jamboree starting or only exactly at 8:35 and if it is 8:35, aren't those kids going to miss something?  If you are doing a car drop off, it is not as if all the parents can get there exactly at 8:35, is there a start time when that is okay?  I pay for JED before care if I have to drop her off early as in 8:00, it seems silly probably starting at arund 8:15 or so because there are so many people on the playground and before care JED (at least last year, have not yet used it this year) kept the kids inside.

Also, my DH would love to park and walk her in but parking is actually not as close/widely available as presented here.  When I have gone and parked so I can walk her in for some particular reason, I always have to park a couple of blocks away and it is a bit of a hike.  Our younger child goes to a preschool where the parking is more available and he parks and walks her in daily despite the director being willing to take kids directly from the cars during a drop off window.[/quote]

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