Arrival/Dismissal Procedures
Arrival
A student may not be on campus before 7:30 a.m. unless he/she has an appointment with a teacher. If a student must be dropped off earlier, he/she may check in to the ASP room for morning supervision beginning at 7:00 a.m. Morning care is offered to parents from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. at the rate of $2.00 per day. Students may not be left on the school campus before 7:00 a.m. For your child(ren)’s safety, all students dropped off between 7:00 – 7:30 a.m. must be signed in. Parents who do not sign their child(ren) in risk not being able to continue in this program. Please note that Incarnation Parish School is responsible for providing a safe environment for its students. Therefore, parents may not elect to have their children wait outside of the ASP room between 7:00 – 7:30 to avoid being charged. All students will be asked to come into the ASP room and the family will be billed accordingly.
Students arriving after 7:30 a.m. must be dropped off using the carpool lane. Vehicles enter the campus via the Dryden Ave. gate and exit through the Central Avenue gates. Parent volunteers are available to assist the students and keep morning carpool safe. Parents are expected to follow the directions of the carpool volunteers. For the safety of all students, please do not park your car and walk your child across the parking lot. If you have business in the school office, use the carpool lane to drop your child off first, then park and proceed to the school office. All campus gates will close at 7:55 a.m. If you expect to be on campus after that time, please park your car in the church parking lot or use street parking to avoid being locked in. Preschool and TK parents are asked to park in the church lot, enter campus through the staffed pedestrian gate (if there is no staff at the pedestrian gate please proceed to the front office) and walk their student directly to the classroom.
Students must wait outside the school building until the teacher brings the class into the room. Students may not wait for their teachers inside the building.
Once a student has arrived on school premises, he/she may not leave the grounds without being signed out by a parent/guardian listed on the emergency card.
Dismissal
Students must be picked up from the carpool lane at dismissal time (except for Preschool, Kindergarten, and TK who are dismissed through the pedestrian gate). As a safety precaution, the side gate from the church parking cannot be unlocked during carpool. For safety, parents may not walk or drive in through the Central Avenue gate.
Carpool ends 10 minutes after dismissal. Students/parents may not use the main entrance on Glenoaks Blvd. for dismissal unless they are being released to a parent/guardian during school hours.
As a service to parents who are unable to pick up their children at dismissal time, the After School Program (ASP) is available. Students not picked up within 10 minutes of dismissal time will be checked in to ASP and the families will be billed accordingly. ASP is open until 6:00 p.m. A $10 fee is charged for late pick-ups (after 6:00 p.m.) for each 10 minutes or fraction thereof.
Only students participating in school-supervised activities may remain on the grounds after dismissal time. Students participating in after-school sports or other school-related activities must be under the supervision of a teacher, coach, or another designated adult. Siblings of students participating in after-school activities must be picked up or be checked in to ASP unless he/she has permission to walk home on file. Parents must pick up their children at the end of practice or activity time. Any student not picked up promptly at the end of the activity will attend ASP and parents will be charged accordingly.
Carpool Procedures
Carpool lanes are to be used by the parents who are driving their children to school. Enter at Dryden and exit at Central only. The carpool lanes are used to ensure your child’s safety. Please observe the following carpool lane guidelines:
- The speed limit is 5 m. p. h. in the parking lot at all times.
- No cell phone use
- Never park your car in the school lot and walk your child to line. If your child has a project or some other school assignment that requires your help, drop off your child first, then park your car and carry that project to your child or his/her classroom.
- Always pull as far forward as possible (toward the fence on Central Avenue) before stopping to let out your child.
- Do not stop near the black wrought iron gate that separates the church and school parking lots. Wait to turn the corner and pull forward.
- Parents may not use the church parking lot for dropping off or picking up their child if carpool is running. The gates between the church and school will be locked from 7:30 a. m. until the end of carpool at the end of the day.
- Do not get out of your car! Carpool volunteers are available to help open/close car doors. Do not have your child put his / her backpack, etc. in the trunk. If you need to adjust your child into a car seat, please pull over and help them.
- Never back up. Remember that the person stopped behind you is letting his / her children walk in front of his/her car.
- Never pass cars in the carpool lane unless directed to do so by a carpool volunteer.
- To ensure that the carpool lane runs smoothly and safely, teachers may not use carpool time for discussions with parents. If you have any questions for the teacher, please contact to the teacher through email or written notice to schedule an appointment.
- Please be patient and kind to the carpool lane volunteers. They are there for the safety of your children.
Permission to Walk Form
If a student is to walk home from school, the “Permission to Walk” form must be signed and on file in the school office. For your convenience, this can be found in the “Forms” section of this Handbook. Students who walk home after school must sign out at the front office. A new form must be filled out for each school year.
Rainy Day Carpool
For the safety of our students and teachers, if it is raining at dismissal time, parents/guardians must park in marked parking spaces in the school parking lot and go directly to the building to pick up students.
On-Demand Transportation Services
Parents/guardians who wish to use an on-demand transportation service to transport their child(ren) are solely responsible for determining if the service allows its drivers to transport unaccompanied minors. Note that, for example, currently neither Uber nor Lyft permits drivers to pick up children under the age of 18 unless accompanied by an adult account holder.
Parents/guardians must sign the Minor Pickup Permission Form and Release for Parishes and Schools, giving permission for their child(ren) to be picked up by a transportation service and absolving Incarnation Parish School and the archdiocese of any liability.
Parents/guardians who have submitted a signed permission form must call the school each day of pickup and inform the school that the transportation service is picking up the child(ren). If possible, the parents/guardians must give the name of the driver who will be picking up the child(ren).
At time of release, the transportation service driver must identify himself or herself to the main office, showing a valid driver license and proof of his or her relationship to the transportation service. The driver must sign the child(ren) out. Drivers must be instructed by the parents/guardians that transportation service drivers may not pick up students in the car line of the location.
The child(ren) are then released to the driver.
