Visitors/Bussing/Parent Pickup & Dropoff

 

For your convenience, we created a short video that shows how the parent drop off and pick up procedures will work. If you have a student at East Side or know someone who does, please share the video with them. Please call East Side school with any questions at 217.540.1380.

An open-door policy is extended to parents during regular school hours. Parents and any other visitors must report to the office. Parents or any other visitors are required to sign in and sign out when entering and exiting the building and a visitor's pass will be issued. Parents must make arrangements with teachers before visiting their classrooms. All other visitors shall report to the Principal's Office. Student visitors are not permitted at South Side School. Illinois School Code 8:30Visitors are required by state law to report to the office whenever they enter a school building. Please make sure you stop at the office to sign in and sign out when entering and leaving the building and wear a visitor badge for the safety of the students. Thank you! 

 

To set up bussing or make changes to bussing, requests should be submitted via email to Kristin Harvey, Transportation Director, at [email protected]. School bus riders, while in transit, are under the jurisdiction of the school bus driver. The bus driver must devote 100% of his/her attention to driving the bus and therefore should not be distracted by the improper conduct of students riding the bus. The bus misconduct point system ensures that students conform to the transportation and school rules and policies. The Code of Conduct and Misconduct Point System can be found in the Student Handbook.

 

Parent Pickup & Dropoff

Students in the morning program may be dropped off between 7:45 a.m. and 8:15 a.m.  Students in the afternoon classes cannot be dropped off until 12:10 p.m.  Teachers or paraprofessionals will be at the door to greet them and escort them into the building at 7:45 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. All students being dropped off via a car or vehicle must go through the parent drop off line on the west side of the building. 

 

Parent pick-up time is at 10:50 a.m. for the morning program and at 2:40 p.m. for the afternoon program. Vehicles can line up in the circle drive on the west side of the building, the children will be dismissed by staff at the south west door.  Please wait to get in line with all the other vehicles for parent pick-up, and your child will be put in your car as you drive up.  A teacher will escort each child to his/her car.  Please display the visor card provided by your child’s teacher.
If you plan to pick up your child before dismissal, send a note in the morning or call in.