What is the name of your state? AL
My daughter's elementary principal has changed the way that kids are to be brought, dropped off, etc at school. The new rules do not allow for kids to be walked to their classroom by their parents. I have a first grader who has already been lost once trying to get from one side of the school to the other and sat outside in between rooms and cried because she couldn't find her way. The principal is only allowing people to pull their cars by the road and let our kids out. The class rooms for the kindergarten and 1st graders are on the opposite side of campus. To make matters more uncomfortable, her class room is a portable and on the side where the buses drive around the school. There is about a 2 ft area where the kids can walk to this classroom, but the buses are in motion and a small kid could easily not be seen or the child not pay attention to the buses. These kids are 5 and 6 years old and the walk area is not a side walk, but part of the parking lot.
I can understand that school principals want to protect students, but the procedures inacted are not protecting the students. They are just making the parents jump through hoops. I know the principal personally for over 28 years. She has always been biased and vengeful. She sued to get the job citing discrimination and has become upset with parents because they are not signing in at the office to pick up their kids. She has always done things like this to flex her muscles, but she has never been in a position to affect so many at once by her spite. I do believe the parents should go to the office first and respect the authority of the personel there at school, but I don't like the school being closed up this much. All I want to do is walk my daughter to her class to make sure she gets by the buses and to her classroom. Next year she will probably be fine since her classes will be near the front of the school.
Does the principal have the authority to keep parents from dropping their elementary kids off at their class altogether or can she just make you sign-in or something? I am not wanting to be a disturbance or anything. I just want to make sure my daughter gets to her class safely. I have tried talking to the principal and many others have too, but she says that the kids should know how to get to their classrooms safely. She also stated that she is the one who decided on these changes and that no one over her told her to do it.
My daughter's elementary principal has changed the way that kids are to be brought, dropped off, etc at school. The new rules do not allow for kids to be walked to their classroom by their parents. I have a first grader who has already been lost once trying to get from one side of the school to the other and sat outside in between rooms and cried because she couldn't find her way. The principal is only allowing people to pull their cars by the road and let our kids out. The class rooms for the kindergarten and 1st graders are on the opposite side of campus. To make matters more uncomfortable, her class room is a portable and on the side where the buses drive around the school. There is about a 2 ft area where the kids can walk to this classroom, but the buses are in motion and a small kid could easily not be seen or the child not pay attention to the buses. These kids are 5 and 6 years old and the walk area is not a side walk, but part of the parking lot.
I can understand that school principals want to protect students, but the procedures inacted are not protecting the students. They are just making the parents jump through hoops. I know the principal personally for over 28 years. She has always been biased and vengeful. She sued to get the job citing discrimination and has become upset with parents because they are not signing in at the office to pick up their kids. She has always done things like this to flex her muscles, but she has never been in a position to affect so many at once by her spite. I do believe the parents should go to the office first and respect the authority of the personel there at school, but I don't like the school being closed up this much. All I want to do is walk my daughter to her class to make sure she gets by the buses and to her classroom. Next year she will probably be fine since her classes will be near the front of the school.
Does the principal have the authority to keep parents from dropping their elementary kids off at their class altogether or can she just make you sign-in or something? I am not wanting to be a disturbance or anything. I just want to make sure my daughter gets to her class safely. I have tried talking to the principal and many others have too, but she says that the kids should know how to get to their classrooms safely. She also stated that she is the one who decided on these changes and that no one over her told her to do it.
