URGENT – PLEASE READ
August 27, 2010
Dear Mountain View Families,
In the interest of the safety of all our children, I ask your assistance in improving our drop off and pick up procedures. As our enrollment approaches 1,100 students, our student and parent traffic before and after school becomes a greater challenge. If you are a parent that drops off or picks up your child, you see this on a daily basis. For the past three weeks (and the previous three years) we have listened, watched, and studied the best ways to safely direct traffic. On a typical day this school year, we have over 400 vehicles trying to park, drop off and/or pick up our students. This reality makes the following request necessary for student safety.
Guidelines/Procedures for student arrival and departure:
- Please make sure your child does not arrive to school before 8:40 a.m. School does not start until 9:00 a.m. and right now we have nearly 100 students arriving daily prior to 8:40.
- When dropping off or picking up in your car, please be patient and wait in the line of cars. Please don’t honk your horn, yell at other parents, students or staff.
- When in line, always pull as far forward as you can when in the drop off/pick up lane.
- Never leave your vehicle when in the parent drop off/pick up lane. If you have a younger child (K-3) that you’d prefer to personally pick up directly from the teacher, then please park your vehicle in the designated parking lot or on the street and walk up to pick up your child.
- If you park in the parking lot or on the street and walk up to the building, use designated crosswalks. The shortest route is not always the safest route. More importantly, please do not model illegal behavior to our students by jaywalking.
- Please avoid dropping your children off out of your vehicle in the bus lane or in the parking lot behind the school. Also, please avoid dropping them off alone along Burton Avenue before school. If you park along the South Side of Burton Avenue before/after school please use the designated cross walk at the corner of Burton and Cortessa Parkway.
- Please avoid making illegal u-turns on Burton Avenue, Cortessa Parkway, and neighboring side streets.
Our ongoing safety procedures:
- Every day we allow all children to go directly to their classroom beginning at 8:40 a.m. This minimizes any potential problems before school officially starts at 9:00 a.m.
- Every morning, every non classroom teacher and administration are on duty to guide traffic and safely monitor students as they arrive.
- Every afternoon, every classroom teacher is on duty to safely supervise students as they exit the building.
- We are working with the school district and county to look at alternative routing to enter and exit our parent drop off and pick up lane. Please be watching for more information on this in the coming weeks.
Your continued patience and support of these guidelines will actually speed up the process and much more importantly, will keep all our students safe.
Yours for the Children,
Joel Knorr
Principal