Transportation
Changes in Student Transportation
It is helpful to students to have consistent transportation plans. It can be very confusing for students as well as teachers to alternate between day care, parent pick-up, and buses. Additionally, accepting changes by telephone does not allow us to provide maximum safety measures for our students. Therefore, should there be a need to change transportation, a written note to the teacher from the child’s parent or guardian (with a phone number) and the date indicating the change in his/her transportation home is required on the morning of the change. Students, who must ride a different bus in the afternoon, will bring their bus note to the office to obtain a bus pass that will allow them to ride home on a different bus. Bus drivers will not transport students who do not have a bus pass signed by a school representative. In the absence of a note from the parent, the child will be placed on his/her usual mode of transportation.
Bus Information
Riding the bus ensures a safe and secure arrival and dismissal for students each day. Changes in bus assignments are not permitted. A student must ride his/her assigned bus. Children in Grades K and 1 must be met at the bus stop by either a parent or a caretaker. Bus passes cannot be issued for play dates, birthdays, boy/girl scouts meetings, weekend sleepovers or any other reason except for an emergency as determined by a school official.
Parents are responsible for the safety and supervision of their children from the time the children leave home in the morning until they board the bus, and at the end of the day from the time their children depart the bus until they arrive home. The care, supervision, and behavior of children at the bus stop (prior to loading in the morning, and after unloading from the school bus in the afternoon) is the parent's responsibility.
Please ensure that your child arrives at the correct stop 5-10 minutes before the bus arrives.
Daycare Providers
Please click contact the office for a list of available daycares that pick up at Chattahoochee.
Car Rider Information
The following car rider guidelines have been established to provide the highest level of safety for our students:
Morning Car Rider Procedures:
- Car rider drop off takes place in the side visitor lane. Drivers are asked to please join the line of cars instead of parking and walking their student to the door.
- Students may enter the school beginning at 7:45 AM.
- Staff members will be present to help students enter the school each morning. Drivers should remain in their vehicle and refrain from using their cell phone during drop off.
Afternoon Car Rider Procedures:
- Cars need a tag number to pick up a student in the afternoon. If you know your child will be a car rider for various after school activities during the school year, please secure a car rider tag. Car rider tags are available in the front office or in MyPaymentsPlus.
- Hang your car rider number from the rear view mirror where it is easily visible.
- Advance forward slowly as you approach the pick-up area where students are entering cars and pull all the way up in the driveway so several cars can be loaded at the same time.
- Please stay in line and do not try to go around the other cars.
- For safety reasons, no child standing in the car rider lane will be released to anyone who walks up to the line and asks for his/her child(ren).
- Cars without a tag number will be asked to leave the car rider line and go to the front office to check out the student.
- Children who are not picked up by 3:10 PM will be escorted to the front office and a parent/guardian will be called. At this point, you will need to park your car, come into the building and sign your child out.
Walkers
A student is designated as a 'walker' if they are walking from school dismissal locations directly to their home, not to a car. For this reason, when students are signed up to be a walker, the home address should be within safe walking distance to the school.