• Use the crosswalks to get to our school grounds. If you park on the street in front of the school, do not walk across the front driveway through the carpool traffic. We must be role models for our children.
• Going south on Quarry Chase, there are NO left turns into our front driveway. A sign is posted. Tickets are expensive.
• Never leave your car unattended in the fire lane directly in front of the building.
• Please note the “No Parking” signs posted on Micarta Drive and observe the times they are in effect. This will allow clear visibility as you exit the carpool lanes.
• Children should not ride their bicycles through the east parking lot. This is very dangerous. Children should use the sidewalk in front of the east lot, cross at the crosswalk and walk their bike to the bike rack by the gym.
• Parents who drive students to school should not drop them off in the street.

Safety Updates:

Thank you for your ongoing support, cooperation and patience in making our morning drop off and afternoon dismissal safe and courteous.

1. Please remember, children AND adults, to walk ALL bikes (and skate boards) on the campus. You may ride when you reach the city sidewalks. The areas near the school are full of small children, even toddlers, and walking bikes is an important safety element for any campus.
2. Please wait your turn in the drop-off and pick-up lines. If you cut around cars that are waiting in line, you might not see students and parents who are crossing the traffic lanes, and you can imagine the frustration this causes drivers who ARE waiting their turn.
3. In keeping with 2), please KISS and GO in the mornings, and do not try to conference with your child’s teacher in the afternoons. We know this is a temptation-the staff like visiting with you, too—but it causes delays for others who are waiting. PULL FORWARD even if it means that your child has to walk a little way to get to your car.
4. Our students have learned our expectation that they must use the crosswalk when walking across the street from the front of the school to their neighborhood. Parents have the discretion to choose to walk their children to a parked car in the front parking lot. We ask that ALL students safely cross at crosswalks.
5. With the weather getting warmer, we want to remind you again to please keep your dogs on the city sidewalks and not to bring them on campus. Most of the staff members at Bethany are dog lovers, but any dog trainer will tell you never trust a dog, even the sweetest and most mild-tempered around large groups of children and many of our children are afraid of dogs.
6. By all means, keep walking to and from school whenever you can. This practice reduces traffic problems, frustration and encourages good health!
   

Carpool

• Morning carpool will have two drop-off points. Click here to view map.
• Afternoon carpool will only utilize the west carpool lane.
• All west carpool traffic should make right turns only into the carpool lane. Left turns into the carpool lane are illegal and subject to a very expensive fine.
• All west carpool traffic should make left turns only when exiting in the morning.
• East carpool traffic is encouraged to make a right turn when exiting, although it is not restricted at this time.
• Both carpool lines are single file only. Please pull up to the designated mark before picking up or dropping off children.
• Watch the Safety Patrol children who are there to assist in the morning.
• All teachers at Bethany are on carpool duty after school. We pride ourselves in making sure all children are safe.
• Students will be lined up by grade and by teacher in order from the K sidewalk to the front door walkway. Older children picking up younger siblings will be asked to wait with the younger siblings class.
• Students in the younger grades (K-2) must always tell their teacher before they leave with the person taking them home.
• The carpool form provided in your registration packet is for you to write the names of your carpoolers and to display in the FRONT PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW each afternoon. By displaying the names of the children, staffers will learn who belongs in which car. The afternoon pick-up will go much faster and smoother with the use of the carpool forms.

Thanks for your compliance and cooperation with these guidelines as our first priority is always the safety of our students!

• A temperature of 100.4 degrees or more in the previous 24 hours (please keep your child home until they have been fever-free for 24 hours to avoid spread of infection).
• Diarrhea or vomiting in the previous 24 hours (please keep your child home until symptom-free for 24 hours).
• If your child wakes up with one or both eyes that are red or pink, oozing green or yellow fluid or has matter stuck to the eyelids, please keep your child home and call your doctor. Your child may have pink eye (conjunctivitis) which is EXTREMELY contagious until they have had one dose of prescription eye drops.
• If your child has a moist cough that is difficult to control with over-the-counter medications, or your child is coughing up green or yellow sputum, please keep your child home and check with your doctor. Yellow or green sputum or nasal drainage of this color is a sign of infection, which could be contagious and may need a doctor's evaluation.
• If you child has any chronic health conditions, injuries, or allergies (food, medicine, insects), please click on the Health Form to download.

Health Form

• Only medications that cannot be timed to be administered at home should be sent to school. (Medications to be given 3 times a day usually can be given before and after school, and at bedtime.)
• Students are not allowed to administer their own medications at school (even over-the-counter meds)
• All medications must be accompanied with a note or pink medication request form (obtained from the Clinic or download and print by clicking on the form below)
• Medications must be in the original container or a properly labeled prescription bottle.
• Medications will not be given if brought to school in baggies, foil or envelopes.
• No medications are provided by the clinic.
• It is your child's responsibility to come to the clinic for medications. However, I will make every effort to remind students to come to the clinic.