Afternoon
Afternoons at Ator are quite busy and fast-paced. We recommend a consistent daily dismissal plan for your child. Daily changes cause confusion for children and create opportunities for error and misunderstandings. Should your family have a need arise that causes a change to your daily dismissal arrangements, please notify your child’s teacher and receive confirmation of your request. If you are unable to get confirmation from your child’s teacher, please notify the office. Notifications arriving at our office after 3:00 PM may be unable to be fulfilled properly.
CAR RIDER LINE DISMISSAL
Parents utilizing our Afternoon Car Rider Line will pull around the southside to pick up their child. Cars are not permitted to begin lining up until 3:25 (We share our Parking lot with the 7th Grade Center Buses please do not line up before 3:25 PM). While our line can appear quite long, we promise it moves swiftly.
Parents may park on 16th Street (North of our building) and pick their child up as a walker. Cars must be parked legally, on the curb, facing the proper direction, and allow a full lane of traffic to be able to pass. Please practice good safety habits and teach them to your children when entering and exiting your vehicles in a situation with limited space and availability. *Should a parent choose to use this procedure, you would arrange for your child to be considered a “walker, for the neighborhood side,” as they would walk to your vehicle or walk to meet you on the north side of our campus.
Please stay off cell phones and keep alert while in the line for the safety of our students and staff. For the safety of our students and staff children will be expected to enter on the passenger side of your vehicle and we ask parents to remain in their vehicles while we load students. Once prompted by personnel you may pull forward. There is a designated "Buckle Up Zone" just beyond the loading area. To help us keep our line moving, please pull forward to secure your child's safety seat, if needed.
BUS RIDERS
Students riding the bus home will report to the hallway outside of the office with their grade level and be seated in their appropriate bus line. Parents are encouraged to look up their child’s bus route information in advance. If you have any questions, contact the OPS Transportation Department at 918-272-2231.
WALKERS & BIKE RIDERS
We recommend a few safety tips for students walking home. Make sure students practice their walking route and know how to get home. Encouraging students to use a buddy system when walking is always a good idea. If they are riding a bike, they need to stay on the sidewalks, watch for vehicles, and adhere to the instructions of the crossing guards.
If your child is a walker you will inform their teacher if they will walk to the “apartment side” or “neighborhood side”. For the apartment side please greet your child in front of the Sunny Patch DayCare Center. All students will cross to that location to walk home or meet up with a parent, students are not permitted to leave the line before crossing over. For the neighborhood side, you will collect them as they walk out the doors on the north side of our building. Please do not call or usher them from a parked car or parking lot or pull them from the line. We have specific safety measures in place to assist us in keeping students accounted for and safe. Parents are not permitted to park in our parking lots when picking up their student(s) at the end of the day.