Kiss and Ride

Okay, I have never had to deal with a Kiss and Ride line at an elementary school because I take my girls to school with me. I never knew what parents did or had to deal with each day. The school where I teach is very careful about keeping students safe during arrival and dismissal...the problem is the parents who do not follow the rules. Instead of taking an extra 10 minutes to safely drop their child off at the sidewalk by the school and near staff members, they parking dangerously or illegally on the street right before the school and cross over two streets where cars and buses and pulling in and out of the school...there is no crossing guard and no crosswalk. It is a narrow neighborhood street with cars parked on both sides. If there rushy parents could take just a few minutes to go through the line or park 100 yards down the street in either direction, they could cross with a crossing guard and crosswalk.

In addition to these parents, others are doing u-turns and making illegal left turns out of the school parking lot causing traffic jams.

If a child is hit by a car, by no fault of anyone but their own parent...the school will be targeted. That is ridiculous.