Traffic Flow Plan - Mountain Charter School

During this school year, the faculty and staff of Mountain School have implemented a traffic flow plan in anticipation the growth of the school during the 2007-08 school year. Many of the families will still be in attendance and we saw an opportunity to "train" the existing parents so that a majority will already be familiar with the plan when the expansion of the school is complete during the fall of this year.

There are three critical directives to the parents in this plan. They are as follows:

Parents can only be in the two-lane, one-way, drive-through if:

1)	They stay in their cars in the right lane as they pick up their children at the teacher-directed sidewalk dismissal point.

2)	They are leaving the campus in the left lane.

3)	If parents have to come into the school, they must either park in the parking lot or on Wagon Trail.

The plan really improved traffic flow during last school year. The teachers and aides would have the classes on the sidewalk at 3:00 and would individually dismiss each child as the parent or carpool approached. The director of the school made sure that no one stopped in the left lane, which would prevent the parents who had already picked up from exiting the campus. By 3:15, the entire process was complete.

One feasible idea is to dismiss the 6th grade (only class in the new building) fifteen minutes later. Sixth graders need more academic minutes than all lower grades, so this can easily be implemented. The only catch would be that parents of 6th graders who had younger siblings would be waiting 15 minutes for their 6th graders, but this scenario only affects three or four families.