DISMISSAL EXPECTATIONS & PROCEDURES

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The entire Selma campus community, grades 4 through 8, is responsible for providing our families with a safe, courteous and efficient carpool experience. We appreciate all of your support in making this happen. Following the expectations below will help keep our children safe and model for them an extension of Selma’s cooperative learning environment. 

 

Please share the following with all family members, friends, and caregivers who will be dropping off and picking up your student(s). 

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Authorized Adults

All adults authorized to pick up your child must have a picture ID to show our staff. Your child will only be released to adults on your authorized list. Please call the main office to update or change your authorization: (323) 871-4000.

 

Pedestrian Gate

If you are walking in to pick up your child, please only enter through the main Selma campus pedestrian gate. The carpool gate is only to be used by faculty and staff who are walking children to their cars. If you would like to pick up your child earlier than the carpool time, please park and enter through the main Selma gate, and go to the school office to sign your child out of school. 

 

Student Walk-Out Passes

For permission to be granted for your 4th or 5th grade student to leave campus
with their older Selma sibling who has a walkout pass, you must email the school with a specific
request (names/dates) and receive our email confirmation back before permission will be
granted (email us 24 hours in advance).

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Carpool

No pedestrians may walk through the carpool gate. For the safety of all, cars use the carpool gate and pedestrians use the pedestrian gate.

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• Please use your PLACARD. Different staff members and parents assist with carpool each day and will not be able to recall every vehicle’s occupants. Placards should be placed on the passenger side of the windshield for best visibility. 

• Enter from Selma Ave. All cars must enter carpool line on Selma Avenue! Cars may NOT enter the carpool line by coming north on Cassil Place. Cars entering on Cassil will be directed to turn right. 

• In order to drop off your child, you may not double park or stop in the street, even briefly. Please do not park in the NO PARKING ZONE. 

• There is absolutely no jaywalking. You must cross all streets safely at the corner and by using
  crosswalks as available.

• You may not pull over into a crosswalk to drop off your child. There is absolutely no blocking or
  backing into crosswalks.

• You may not pull into the driveway on the corner of Cassil Pl. and Selma Ave.

• You must drive slowly and cautiously at all times, including entering and exiting our carpool
  lanes and on Selma Ave.

• Carpool 3-Calls Rule. Please remind your child that it is essential that he/she go directly to the carpool area after dismissal. Your child will be called for pick-up only 3 times. If your child is not at the carpool pick-up area after 3 requests made by the carpool team, you will be asked to exit the carpool line, go to the end of the line, and circle back around to pick up your child. 

• Carpool Exit. Absolutely no left turns out of the carpool parking lot! In order to keep our carpool line safe and moving smoothly, turn right onto Cherokee Avenue. 

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Please adhere to the correct pick-up times.

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If you arrive before your student has been dismissed, your student will be called 3 times; if they are not there, you will simply be asked to go around the block. Students will still be in classrooms until their respective dismissal times. Times are intentionally staggered to reduce congestion in the lot. 

 

Dismissal Closing Time

Pedestrian Gate & Carpool close promptly at 4:10. Children not picked up by then will be checked into After School and parents will be charged for the after school program accordingly. 

 

IMPORTANT: Any driver who does not follow these procedures, or speaks rudely to staff or children, will no longer be allowed to participate in carpool and will have to park and pick up their child(ren) from the pedestrian gate.

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