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Rancho Romero Elementary School of Alamo has distributed a list of seven key safety rules for dropping off and picking up students near and on the campus.
Parents and neighbors have expressed increasing concern about traffic and parking — particularly on and around the Iron Horse trail — creating hazardous conditions, officials said.
The San Ramon Valley Unified Scool District, Rancho Romero, Contra Costa County and the county sheriff’s office all support the release of the list to the community.
The “rules to remember” include the following:
* Please do not use cell phone’s while dropping off children.
* Always use the marked crosswalks when walking towards the school. Never walk across the lanes of car traffic during drop off or pick up.
* Do not park in the spaces reserved for the secretaries or the principal.
* Do not drop off children in the portion of the lane of traffic in front of the YMCA. (Adjacent to campus)
* Do not use the Creative Learning Center as a drop-off and pick-up area.
* Do not drop off students in the parking lot located in the back of the school as it is reserved for staff only.
* Do not use or park in nearby private driveways or private streets as a means to avoid traffic delays on Danville Blvd.
Officials hope that by reminding parents to follow these rules, the environment surrounding Rancho Romero will become less dangerous during student pick up and drop off.
Or they could you know, restore busing as the school was designed for instead of expecting 500 families to squeeze through a drop off zone in fifteen minutes. Pick-up is even worse since it takes more time for kids to find their parents than just getting out of the car. But no, let’s blame the parents and expect them to behave better with the decisions the school board have made.