Now that your children stay in school longer, more than 140 cars have to move through the loading zone in front of classrooms 3 to 8 to pick up children on Wednesday afternoons. This loading zone can only hold twelve cars at a time: if each one takes two minutes to drive up, pick up charges and exit, that's 24 minutes for those 140 Wednesday cars. So we need everybody to move through the pick-up and drop-off lane quickly. Can you all please help?
We would like all drivers to keep in mind the driver of the last car in line, waiting for all others to move on. Don't waste his or her time.
So please always pull forward as far as you can, don't stop and leave open space, for it keeps other parents from entering the loading zone. We hope it is clear that parking in the loading zone is absolutely out of the question.
Always stay in your car, be ready to pull forward when cars in front of you move, and be ready to quickly load or unload and move on. Don't put backpacks etc. in the trunk of your car for it takes too much time.
If your student passengers are not in the pick-up waiting area, either park in designated parking or exit and circle through again.
In class, the students are taught to cross only in the designated crosswalks. So next to the physical danger when you cross elsewhere (drivers may not be looking in your direction), there is your sending the message to all children that breaking the rules is OK.
Cars should leave the crosswalks open. Only pull forward when there's enough space on the other side.
Pedestrians have to do their part by waiting patiently to let groups of leaving cars pass.
Please keep dropping off your children at the Kindergarten gate. When you have other children in your car they may get out here too, to avoid a second unloading event.
Don Cox, Principal
Mimi Mackey, PTA President
Marco Schuffelen, Traffic Safety Coordinator
The math:
According to the Walk-to-School Day classroom survey 61% of students
usually come in by family car, so I took 60% of 250 families = 140 and
13% use car pool, that's 13% of 350 = 40, assuming just two per car
that's 20 cars, 140+20=160; 40 to Kindergarten, 20 parking leaves 100.
100 cars divided by twelve spaces times 1.5 minute per car equals 12
(minutes); 140 divided by twelve times 2 equals 24.
Hoover Elementary Traffic Safety Issues