Murphy’s Law . . . what can go wrong will

This morning there was no power in the K-4 building. The K-4 BUILDING HOUSES ALL OF OUR INTERNET AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. At 7:45 AM the decision was made to send students home that had already arrived on campus. Shortly after that, electrical power to the K-4 building was restored and teachers and staff were in place to open classrooms for students. By 7:50AM all EWA facilities were ready to open and the school day could proceed as normal. Of course, this would have to happen on the day that we began our new morning carpool procedure. The delay in releasing student from cars due to the power failure increased the length of our carpool line.
Please be assured that if your student was sent home or tardy today due to the cancellation of school or a delay in carpool it WILL NOT BE COUNTED against them.
As always, thank your for your cooperation and understanding in this matter.

New Carpool Procedures

The end of the school year is in sight. EOG and EOC testing is right around the corner. Before you know it, we will be back from summer break and starting a new school year. Our campus will have a new look and feel. In order to prepare for this, we will practice our new carpool procedure each morning beginning on Monday, May 17th and through out the remainder of the school year. The traffic pattern will be the same as the one used on the early dismissal day in April.

I promise the morning carpool will flow faster than the afternoon. We have learned a great deal from each of our drills. We will be ready for the new school year. Some of you will remember that we have had many variations of our carpool; each one better than the last. Do you remember sitting under the shelters each day calling out numbers with the bullhorn? Maybe you remember closing off the crosswalk so students could cross over safely and then opening the lane again for traffic to move?

Our hope is that the 2010~2011 car pool route will be the best and last version. Be patient and careful. We move 1500 cars a day with out incident. So stay off the cell phone while on campus. Keep your eyes forward. Follow the directives of staff. Remember you are responsible for the safety of some else’s child. Some mistakes you can’t take back. Let’s all be safe rather than sorry.

CARPOOL PARTY

Thanks so much for your patience and assistance today for our new carpool practice drill. We will re-do drives and add new pavement during our summer break. K-5 carpool went extremely smooth. Middle school slowed us down a bit due to the lack of assigned carpool numbers, another one of those things we learned from our drill today.
There will be much to do this summer to enhance this process. Driveways will need to be repaved, turning radius adjustments and more directional information installed. However for that old charter school that does not know what they are doing, we did alright. Please note we contained carpool on our property today and created no problems on Gannon Ave. (hwy 97). These are the two primary goals of the Town of Zebulon and the NCDOT. Please, remember to use Shepherd School Road as much as possible. If we demonstrate we can keep Hwy 97 moving then perhaps NCDOT will withdraw their decision to require EWA to pay for the installation of a turning lane on Gannon Ave.
Again thanks to the staff for their support and diligence today to ensure the safety of our children. I extend another thank-you to all the patient grandparent and new people that were kind to us today. For those few impatient folks today, well I will add you to the list on Sunday.