ARRIVAL
Driving Procedures for Arrival
If you will be driving your child to school, please use the parent drop-off lane and stay with your vehicle. Please place your colored paper on the passenger side dashboard or on the passenger window so that the staff knows your child’s assigned teacher. This will assist the staff in efficiently helping your child exit the bus or car, and be escorted to the correct classroom line. The teachers will line their students up inside the foyer of the Early Childhood Center. With ten classrooms of students, it will be too congested to line the children up outside of the Center.
Please enter from the east, and turn off of Jackson Street into the Jackson Middle School campus. Follow the road straight back to the Early Childhood Center. Do not turn right, as this will place you in front of Jackson Middle School. As you approach the Early Childhood Center, please wait in the vehicle line and gradually veer left into the parent drop-off lane. Staff will be available to help your child out of the back seat of your vehicle. Please have your child’s backpack next to them so that the staff member may also take their backpack. Staff members will take your child’s hand and escort them into the school building. The colored paper on your dashboard or passenger window will alert the staff to your child’s assigned teacher and classroom. The colored tag attached to your child’s backpack will also alert the staff to your child’s assigned teacher and classroom. Parents will then proceed through the parking lot, and back down the driveway to Jackson Street. When you get to the stop sign at Jackson Street, please continue North on Michigan or turn right and go east on Jackson Street to avoid any remaining Middle School traffic.
Bus Procedures for Arrival
Parents and buses may only enter from the east on Jackson Street and turn into the Jackson Middle School campus. There are two designated drop-off locations: one for buses and one for cars. Bus drop-off lanes are for buses only. The buses will enter from Jackson Street, proceed into the campus, and turn right (west) for the bus lanes. Staff will walk to the buses to take students on and off the bus and escort them into the school building. For safety reasons, parents may not cross this area of the parking lot and walk their child in between buses.
Walking Procedures for Arrival
If you are walking your child to school, you may enter the Jackson Middle School campus from Jackson street. Please use the sidewalk on the east side to walk your child up to the Early Childhood Center. As you approach the EC Center, there will be a staff member available to cross you and your child safely at the crosswalk to the front of the building. You will wait there with your child until a staff member takes them into the building.
Since this is a new school building with new procedures, we all need to work together to develop and follow arrival and dismissal procedures to ensure the safety of the students.
