The news has been wrong on this. What she has done is that kids that are in car pick up line get dismissed first, and the walkers get dismissed 30 minutes later.
I guess parents were parking in the neighborhood and then walking to get their kids and it was causing problems with traffic in the neighborhood.
I’m an Aggie and one of our almni political forums had parents from the school talking abut it.
I saw this story on the news this morning, but the piece was very short on details, so thank you for your explanation! It makes better sense to me now that I know the scoop. The problem with parents parking on crowded neighborhood streets and then walking their kids to the building is common in the two elementary schools where I work, also. It further congests the streets at the busiest times of day and isn’t fair to the homeowners (and frustrates service providers like myself) who can never get parking spots when they need them, but know that by the time they trek in from the boonies, half the parents will have vacated the spots they used briefly.
One of my campuses is in such a crowded residential neighborhood that the principal put out a directive to all faculty and staff a couple of years ago that, on one of the (narrow) side streets, we could only park on one side so as not to make traffic any worse. There were not any restrictions for the parents as in this article, of course, but I sure can understand the idea behind them (just not the threats of arrest, lol). There’s no telling what kind of complaints this school has had from the residents of the neighborhood, and this principal might be under pressure to figure something out. (She needs to go back to the drawing board, though!!)
I guess parents were parking in the neighborhood and then walking to get their kids and it was causing problems with traffic in the neighborhood.And having the parents queue their cars in line, from an hour before to half an hour after dismissal, to pick up the kids one at a time, won't cause any such problems