Afternoon Dismissal Procedures

Bette Perot Elementary
Student Dismissal Procedures 

Bette Perot Elementary dismisses each day at 3:25 p.m. for bus/daycare/transportation companies, walkers/bike riders and for car riders. Early dismissal will be at 11:55 for all students. We supervise students outside during dismissal for 15 minutes after dismissal has started. After 15 minutes, any student not picked up is brought to the office. Parents arriving to dismissal late will need to come to the front office with either their driver’s license or the official Bette Perot car sign.

Refer to the traffic map below for a visual of student dismissal procedures, pick-up locations, parking and no-parking areas. Remember that we have over 500 students dismissing each day, and these procedures are put in place for every child’s safety. Common courtesy and everyone following the procedures will help to make dismissal safe and quick for all.

Mobile phones are never to be used in the parking lot while your car is running.

1.     Walkers/bike riders will be released through gym doors and escorted across the street to the corner of Dalton and General Worth. There is no parent waiting areas or walk-up areas near the school.

2.     Kindergarten and First Grade students (and their older school aged siblings) who are picked-up by car will be dismissed from the Kindergarten wing (north canopy). Kindergarten parents will form a line in the right-hand lane entering the parking lot. When you pull into the Kindergarten Dismissal Zone, a teacher will help your child into the backseat passenger side of your car. Please teach your Kindergarten student to buckle his/her own seatbelt. A staff member will move your car line to the left-hand lane at the crosswalk so you may exit the parking lot.

3.     Second grade, Third Grade and Fourth grade students (unless they have a younger sibling) will be picked-up at the Second grade canopy (south canopy).  Parents in the pick-up line for second grade, third grade and fourth grade will form a line in the left-hand lane entering the parking lot. A staff member will move your line to the right-hand lane at the crosswalk so you will be next to the building. When you pull into the Dismissal Zone, a teacher will be there to guide your child to your car.

4.     For car pick-up with multiple students, you may pick-up your group at the youngest child’s pick-up location. For example, if you have a Kindergarten student and a Third grade student, the Third grade student will walk to the Kindergarten dismissal area and sit with his/her sibling or group. If this is your situation, please write a note to all of the children’s teachers informing them of the pick-up location, student names, grade levels, and teachers’ names of the children who will need to be placed together. Children will not be allowed to go to any other pick-up location without parent consent.

5.     Any changes in your student dismissal routine, whether permanent or temporary, must be done in writing or a phone call by a parent/legal guardian through our office before 3:00 p.m.

6.     Parents must present a car sign at car pick-up or the parent will be asked to come to the office and present a driver’s license to verify authorization to pick-up the student.