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American Academy

K-8 Controlled Release - Weather Situation

Carpool is CANCELLED. Students are kept inside. Parents must park and walk inside with a driver's license or their SDM app to physically retrieve students. OUTSIDE and INSIDE after-school activities are cancelled (unless otherwise noted), including KindiePrep ExtraCare. Walkers will be released as usual, unless you make a change in the SDM app accordinly. KindiePrep students must be picked up as usual.
  • When the weather conditions are not safe for students or staff to be outside in the elements.
  1. Notification will be sent through the emergency communications system (voice and text) and posted on social media.

  2. Parents must take responsibility for their own safety. Because a controlled release is a slower process designed to keep STUDENTS (our first priority as a school) safe, it can result in a slower carpool process. Thank you for exercising patience.

  3. Parents must access the parking lot by driving through the regular carpool traffic line in an orderly manner.

    • DO NOT attempt to go around the carpool line to reach the parking lot. Parents should wait their turn in a single line to access the parking lot, even it this happens slowly, in the usual manner. Once parked, parents may walk inside the building to pick up students. Students are safe inside the building and someone will stay with them until a parent can pick them up.

    • DO NOT park against the curb in the fire lane in front of the school. This behavior blocks emergency access to the building, blocks other parents from accessing our parking lots, and endangers all students and staff remaining in the building.

    • DO NOT ask the front office staff to bring your student outside.

    • DO NOT park in the parking lot and call to have your student sent outside. Parents must walk in to retrieve students in person.

  4. Parents will park and walk into the building through the front lobby to proceed as directed by staff. The details of how students are dismissed from this point may vary by campus.

  5. A smartphone with the School Dismissal Manager (SDM) app OR a driver's license must be presented in order to sign out a student. Students will not be released to any adult without an ID and an SDM app profile.
Standard Response Protocol: Lock Out