Totally frustrated with Parent Pick up at Norton Elementary

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Permalink Reply by Ramona Miller-Ridlon on September 8, 2012 at 6:43pm

We are at Norton also, and while my children are at afterschool and don't have this problem, I have heard a lot of complaints from others. For many of us, the bus is not an option. We live 1 1/3 miles from school and still can't take the bus. I would guess more than 1/2 have the children at Norton are considered too close for the bus. (It has a very small school zone) It is also a problem for the parents who walk to pick up their children. Before this year they waited by the bike rack and the teachers brought out the children grade by grade and handed them off to the parents. Now the parents have to go tell a staff member they are there and the staff member retrieves the child. It is MUCH slower.  I have a feeling this system works at schools where most of the children ride the bus, but at a school where a majority of the children are car pick-up or walker/bikers, it just takes too long. (Now, I do arrive at 7:15 for drop off and it is never an issue.) --- And don't get me started on the fact that a child who lives over 1 mile away cannot take the bus. Do they really expect my kindergartner to walk that far?

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Permalink Reply by Ramona Miller-Ridlon on September 8, 2012 at 6:45pm

Not everyone is allowed to ride the bus. We live over a mile away and are ineligible for the bus because my children don't cross a major road. Forget the fact that they are only 6 & 7.

Rochelle Reber George said:

Whatever happened to riding the bus? It was good enough for us as kids!

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Permalink Reply by Caryn on September 10, 2012 at 7:20am

That's what I would do.  If they want it to take extra time to get your kid, then they can have it!

Kristin Foster said:

We aren't far enough away for A bus . I would say i am a mile from the school but too far for walking since I have a pre k student who has to be picked up at 2. I may have to pick up at the pre k first and then drive back to Norton even though I wouldnt be there until 30 mins after the school bell rang. But I am thinking there will probably be plenty of other parents picking up at 215 cause the line is just so long and slow . I will have to try that next week.

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Permalink Reply by Stacy Fournier on September 10, 2012 at 12:23pm

I can't believe parents are being ticketed for parking and walking up to the school! Since our car line takes a while to get through, I usually park at a nearby neighborhood and walk to the car circle to pick my daughter up from school. I don't think there is anything illegal about parking along a street as long as you aren't parking in front of someone's mailbox, drive way, etc. And like you said, you could always just wait to go through the car circle until a bit later. I always make sure Aubrey has a book, paper and a pencil in her backpack in case she does have to wait. Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Traci on September 11, 2012 at 9:01am

Its getting crazy...In the afternoon it would also help if parents driving their cars would pull up to the car in front of them and also pay attention when the cars do move. If not it causes a slower chain reaction to the other cars back in the line

 

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Permalink Reply by Stacy Fournier on September 14, 2012 at 10:23am

So I was running late the other day, so I decided I better go through the car line rather than trying to park and walk. Coming even just five minutes after the bell rang got me through the line SO much faster. I was in and out in 10 minutes! I was shocked!

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Foster on September 17, 2012 at 7:37am

So here's what we've been doing. My grandmother lives in Forest of the Unicorn. We park there and take her bike out of the trunk. She puts on her helmet and we watch here ride to the school crossing guard at NW 45th Ave/Nw 24th Blvd. And then she is pretty much the school. And we park at my Grandmother's and within 8 minutes of the bell ringing, she is at my car and then we can drive to St. Michael's where my Violet goes to pre-K. Of course this is fine in warm, sunny weather.

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Permalink Reply by Stacy Fournier on September 22, 2012 at 9:17pm

Glad you were able to come up with something! Now fingers crossed for nice weather at pick-up and drop-off times! :-)

Kristin Foster said:

So here's what we've been doing. My grandmother lives in Forest of the Unicorn. We park there and take her bike out of the trunk. She puts on her helmet and we watch here ride to the school crossing guard at NW 45th Ave/Nw 24th Blvd. And then she is pretty much the school. And we park at my Grandmother's and within 8 minutes of the bell ringing, she is at my car and then we can drive to St. Michael's where my Violet goes to pre-K. Of course this is fine in warm, sunny weather.

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Permalink Reply by eileen b on January 25, 2013 at 11:11am

I know this is an old discussion, but parent-pick up at Wiles is very difficult. We live in Haile and I have to drive straight into the school. You cannot get into the parent pick-up line until after 1:50 because the people turning right into the school fill up the line. I have turned right out of the neighborhood, gone down Tower, and made a U-turn to come back at it. My biggest pet peeve is parents who stop right in front of the door instead of driving around to the end of the pick up curb. Or parents who are in the pick up line and then get out of the car! GRRRRR! Our old school used the car tag with a number. One teacher was at the entrance and she would radio numbers back so the kids were ready. 12 kids in, 12 cars out. Next 12 came in. Much more effcient(but this was started at the beginning of school so we got our hangtags before school actually started). Pick up is a pain at every school, but some do it better than others. When I go back to work, my kids will ride the bus. At our school in the Panhandle, buses dropped kids right off at their driveway! It's amazing the difference between the counties and how they run things.

I agree to try to find someone to car pool. Our old school was next to the Jr High and we had a neighbor who had an Elem and a Jr High child. The Jr High got out 30 min before the Elem, so she would just wait in the Elem line and her Jr High son would walk over to meet her. Is there a neighborhood or a store next to the school where you could park and walk over? In Jax, we used to park at the Y and walk across the street to avoid having to park in the school lot.

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Foster on January 28, 2013 at 6:05pm

Drop off is bad too. I just noticed this morning the long, long, long line of parents stretching all along NW 45th Ave to turn into the school all the way back to 24th Blvd Ave and I got in that line at say 0720 this morning and I got out of the line at 0737 which is 3 mins before the first bell rings. I just know there have to be so many tardy kids. We aren't even allowed to drop off until 0715. We are doing the bicycle thing. She rides her bike to me and I park at my grandmother's house which is just a few blocks from the school or I'll meet her on my bicycle.  But her bike was stolen, and then we bought a new bike but she lost her new lock and its been cold so I've been suffering through the parent pick up line again and each day I think I HAVE to get to Walmart and get a bike lock!

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