Desert Willow Roadrunner Review March 1, 2023

STUDENT ARRIVAL AND DISMISSAL PROCEDURES AT DESERT WILLOW

• The safest way to pick up your child is the school bus or carline pick up.
• It is very important NOT to cut in the lines, as your child(ren) will not be ready for pick up. Your specific number tells us to get your child(ren) ready for pick up.
• Use marked crosswalks (Please do not wave students across the street)
• Please stay in your car during dismissal.
• Please do not park in the neighborhood and tell your child to walk to your car without supervision.
• If your child is a “walker,” they should be walking directly to their house. We cannot reasonably supervise our neighborhood streets to ensure your child makes it home safely.
• For the safety and security of all our students, we will not call students out of class between 3:00-3:30 pm.
• All dismissal transportation changes need to be communicated to our office prior to 2:30 pm.

For our families utilizing drive up drop off an/or pick up, here are some helpful tips.

• Line up single file.
• Do not enter the front driveway until 8:40 AM or 3:25 PM.
• Drive slowly and cautiously.
• Our preschool students dismiss earlier than other classrooms and they are allowed to pull into the parking before 3:25pm. This allows our youngest students and our students requiring extra assistance time to safely get into their vehicles and exit campus.
• At arrival -Thank you for dropping off only in the bus lane, not the parking lot. We greatly appreciate you helping us not have students cross the drop-off lane!
• At dismissal - Show your car tag number to our staff member. Please have them visible in your car. Sometimes Maestra Bright is not able to see as high as your vehicle dashboard. Pull up to a colored dot. Stay in order.
• Wait for your child. We will unload and load 10 cars at a time.
• Please do not get out of the vehicle. One of our staff or Roadrunner Patrol will come and assist your child to the car.
• We will only allow students to climb into cars on the passenger side of the vehicle.
• If your child needs assistance buckling their car seat please pull forward and park in the parking lot so that you can assist your child and we can keep the car line moving. Staff and students do not buckle students.
• Please do not pass other drivers unless directed to do so.
• If your child is not ready at dismissal, we will ask you to park and we will bring them out when ready.

Please remember that to assist with the safety of our walkers and the efficiency of our car pick up option, the walkers will be dismissed a few minutes later, we are opening the gate by 3:35pm. As we all become more familiar with the procedures, the quicker every dismissal option will become. Thank you for your understanding and help with this.

A few reminders from the local Phoenix Police Department to follow:

• School zone speed limit of 15mph
• Use marked crosswalks (please do not wave students across the street)
• PCC 36-134 (stopping, standing, and parking regulations)
• ARS 28-815 (blocking bike lanes)