Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drove home at 3:30 yesterday and am a little outraged by the number of big SUVs pulling sudden U-turns on Kirby. It's not safe.

that’s on the principal. She wants those parents to drive up Kirby, u-turn and come back down. Now there is major sidewalk construction and flag guys.

It's not ideal but still safer and better than the alternative of having them try to turn L off of Kirby into and jamming up multiple intersections in the process. But there are plenty of ways parents could access the queue on Kirby besides driving up one way then pulling a U in the middle of the road, but those parents just can't be bothered to be minorly inconvenienced.

It's dangerous - they should turn around in the pool or church parking lot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drove home at 3:30 yesterday and am a little outraged by the number of big SUVs pulling sudden U-turns on Kirby. It's not safe.

that’s on the principal. She wants those parents to drive up Kirby, u-turn and come back down. Now there is major sidewalk construction and flag guys.

It's not ideal but still safer and better than the alternative of having them try to turn L off of Kirby into and jamming up multiple intersections in the process. But there are plenty of ways parents could access the queue on Kirby besides driving up one way then pulling a U in the middle of the road, but those parents just can't be bothered to be minorly inconvenienced.

Anonymous wrote:Send this thread to incumbent FCPS Superintendent Dr Michelle Reid.

Like she is gonna read 18 pages of the whining from triggered loonies.

Anonymous wrote:I drove home at 3:30 yesterday and am a little outraged by the number of big SUVs pulling sudden U-turns on Kirby. It's not safe.

that’s on the principal. She wants those parents to drive up Kirby, u-turn and come back down. Now there is major sidewalk construction and flag guys.

Send this thread to incumbent FCPS Superintendent Dr Michelle Reid.

I drove home at 3:30 yesterday and am a little outraged by the number of big SUVs pulling sudden U-turns on Kirby. It's not safe.

Anonymous wrote:I think more like if they have an extracurricular activity to get to by 4pm... the alternative might be to sign up for a later class session (say 5pm) but then that might be logistically problematic with dinner and having a good family evening routine, especially when trying to coordinate with siblings and their activities, etc. So lining up early to pick up their kid to be able to get out on time makes sense, esp. if they have the flexibility of schedule for being a SAHM, or nanny, or a job that you can take work calls/write emails while waiting in your car, etc.

Or they could just park down the street in one of the lots mentioned in the many pages of discussion upthread. Walk to pick up their kid. Not be the a-hole blocking traffic and extending the pickup line 40 minutes before dismissal.

I hope the school's front office starts putting out cones to block the K&R line until 5 minutes before dismissal. Maybe they could print out reminder slips to hand out, since these entitled parents obviously aren't reading (or are pretending not to receive) the principal's emails and notices. Much harder for parents to ignore something handed directly to them at K&R pickup