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Phone Requests

The following procedure should be used by parents, who have special requests while their children are in school:

  1. Restrict all phone messages for children to emergency or extremely important matters.
  2. We will not accept phone calls of any kind requesting that children be sent to a place (barber, store, library, street corner, etc.) as opposed to the personal custody of an adult.
  3. If you wish your child to go to a certain place after school, please send a signed written note to his/her teacher in advance and she/he will make every attempt to remind your child before dismissal.
  4. If you find it necessary to call the school and have your child go to another party's home or into the personal custody of another adult after dismissal, the following procedure will be required:
    • Call the school as soon as possible and notify us of your directions.
    • Provide us with the name and phone number of the receiving party.• Have the receiving party call the school to verify their knowledge of your circumstance and their willingness to accept and be responsible for your child.
    • If the receiving party fails to call the school, no notification will be given to your child.
    • When the receiving party calls the school, we will then counter verify that information before releasing the child. No calls for this purpose will be accepted within 15 minutes prior to a dismissal time.
    • If an emergency call is necessary within the 15 minutes prior to dismissal, your child will automatically be held in the office until such time as the above procedures have been met.
  5. If a parent sends someone to school unannounced and/or without prior notification to the office to pick up his/her child, we will not release the child until parent verification has been established.
  6. We reserve the right to request personal identification and a written signature from anyone whom we do not personally know or recognize before releasing any child, even though phone verification has been made.
  7. Urgent information that must be conveyed prior to the end of the school day should not be left on the voice mail of a teacher but communicated directly to the school secretary.