Otsego Elementary School Faculty Handbook - Half Hollow Hills

DISMISSAL OF STUDENTS TO PARENTS
Procedures for student dismissal to parents:
Please note the guidelines for the different scenarios below:
• A parent has sent a note to the teacher stating that his/her child will
be picked up by a parent or designee at the end of the school day
o The office will call for these children via an “all-call announcement”
at 3:10PM.
o These children will go to the side entrance next to the gym.
• A parent comes to pick up a child at dismissal time, but has NOT
sent a note
o Parents will sign out their children at the front desk and receive a
pink dismissal slip.
o After the 3:10 announcement is made, the parent will take this slip
to the office, and the office will call the children’s classrooms to
send the child to the side entrance. The parent will be instructed to
go back to the side entrance to wait for their child.
o If the class has already exited the building, parents will be
instructed go to the bus platform, outside the primary exit, hand the
pink slip to the teacher/bus driver, and the child will be released.
You must not release any student to a parent or other adult without
this pink slip! (see the next page for an example.)
• A parent comes to pick up a child prior to the dismissal period (with
or without a note)
o Parents will sign out their children at the front desk outside the main
office.
o The office will call for children to be sent to the main entrance
hallway.
o DO NOT send students for early dismissal until you have received
a call from the office.
REMINDER: Unless you have received a note from a parent indicating that
he/she will be picking up his/her child, the student MUST go home on their
assigned bus.