Sycamore Ridge School Valet Service

Each morning parent volunteer “valets” are at the upper and lower drop-off zones to assist you as you drop off your children. Your cooperation with the valets is appreciated and expected to ensure your child’s safety and to expedite the drop-off process. Please help keep our kids safe and help us to expedite the process by following the instructions below:

General Instructions for Everyone

• Have backpacks zipped up and ready to go.
• Your child should be finished with all breakfast foods before you pull into the drop-off lane.
• If possible, place backpacks in the front passenger seat or floor; this way the valets can quickly remove them while the children can pay attention to safely exiting the car. Please do not place the backpacks in the trunk; doing so puts the valets and your children in possible danger as they stand behind your car and in front of the next car moving into position to unload its passengers.
• Pull forward as far as possible, staying in a single line to the right.
• Drivers--Please do NOT get out of your vehicle. To do so is both unsafe and very time consuming.
• Keep your good-byes short.
• Please pay attention to the car in front of you. We have had near rear-end collisions.

Drop-Off Zone

• Stay in a single file line next to the right curb. Even if you have finished dropping off your child, please stay in line. Do not pull around the car in front of you. Pull as far forward as possible to get more vehicles off the street.
  
• Kids should exit the car only from the passenger, ie: curb side.
• Try to place toddler car seats on the driver’s side of the car; this way students unloading from the passenger side don’t have to crawl over the toddler seat to get out.
• On exiting the lower drop-off zone, make a RIGHT turn ONLY.
• If you want to walk to class together, proceed into the parking lot and find a parking space.

Parking Lot

• Do NOT double-park, especially to unload kindergarteners.
• Do NOT use the handicapped parking spaces as your own personal drop-off zone. Please note, unless you have handicapped plates, it is not only illegal to park to unload in these spaces, but doing so effectively creates a traffic chokepoint that stalls the entire drop-off process and endangers pedestrians using the crosswalk across the entry to the parking lot.

The valets volunteer to help the school, our kids and the drivers and we have a lot of fun in the process. If you can give us 15 to 20 minutes, even one day a week, we would love to have you join us! Contact the school office for more information.