"dragonlady" wrote in message
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And that the schools were not designed to have safe drop-off/pick up
areas . . .

My kids' school is on a 45 mph winding country road with no sidewalks.
There really is no safe way for kids to walk there, even if there were
kids who lived close enough to walk.

Actually, let me take that back, there is one gravel road that goes
behind the school, and there are 2 or 3 kids who can and do walk
from there. Luckily though, they are walking across the fields and
entering through the back doors, so they are nowhere near the
road or the cars out front.

And the school seems to have handled the drop-off/pick-up
pretty well. For pick-up, you have to go in and physically
sign your child out, so you have to actually park and walk in.
For drop-off, the cars enter the school lot, loop through the
parking lot, and each one stops and lets their child out at
the door. There is a person stationed there every day to
make sure that 1) the kids cross the bus drop-off safely,
2) no cars try to drive around other cars, and 3) no one
lets their child out until they have pulled up to the drop-off
point.

There are a lot more drop-offs than pick-ups of course.
First, many working parents drop their kids in the morning,
and then the kids go to afterschool. Of course they still
need to be picked up, but it's over the course of a couple
hours, not all at once.

Bizby