M.I.S. Carpool Procedures
Many Overheardians have warned me about the carpool lines at McCulloch Intermediate School. I know all the stories are true because I just received a blast email from Assistant Principal Richard Bohac about pick up and drop off procedures. There are 11 bullet points in addition to this handy map with colorful arrows marking proper traffic flow. Here are a few themes from his e-mail:
- NO LOADING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREETS!!
- DO NOT LOAD IN MIDDLE LANES!
- NO STANDING AND LOADING AT STOP SIGN ON BINKLEY.
- No Standing or Parking on crosswalks, yellow traffic bumps or yellow striped corners.
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NO PARKING in Queue lanes.
Please tell me it’s not so bad.
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It’s not so bad.
I think it’s totally bad. Giddy up, Merritt.
I sense a confrontation coming. It should be fun.
Just know that by the time your last one gets there, you will have become immune to it. I remember once telling one of the carpool volunteers (nice lady) that the woman in front of me should be pulled from her car and executed. She refused to pull up in the carpool lane. She was driving a big suv and I couldn’t see around her. I always assumed that she told her child that she would pick them up in that exact location and that her child was not bright enough to recognize her car anywhere else. It gave me comfort to know that my child would not graduate at the bottom of their class.
After my first day in the fray (or carpool lane if you choose to call it that) I decided that my kid wasn’t getting enough exercise. I, like many other parents, have my kids walk 4-5 blocks to a more convenient and accessible location. This location is close to other parent’s homes and to a couple of crossing guards. From there I am able to make a fairly swift entrance and exit and thus do not spend the entire afternoon waiting in line.
James and unstable ably express the theory that the carpool line is a test of “social Darwinism,” and, as such, is just another learning opportunity.
Not unless you all have made it impossible, don’t you get all of that info in the 1st day packet from Hell!! Love Bohac!! Let me pass on the secret of yesteryear… Pick up the little darlings a block away. Picked mine up at Normandy and Goff, easy!!
I still don’t think it is that hard. I get there about 5 minutes early, am at the front of the line and as soon as my daughter walked out, we are off. Even if I don’t get there in time to be in the front, it still doesn’t take long. Stop whining.
Does the actual notice use all capital letters? That would concern me.
“Hello Jack? I’m Annette. You’re doing it wrong.”
I hope us moms new to MIS won’t get a tongue-lashing. I have actually spent time studying the email…but it’s been made such a big deal of that I just know I will mess up!
OH PLEASE. You bunch of posers. The HP and local DISD schools cannot and do not compare in any way to the private schools in Preston Hollow and HPISD.
PSM: If you’re gonna say things like that, you need to give a for instance to qualify the statement.
Otherwise we just mock you in front of your back.
OK Bethany, if that is your real name. In our car pool lines we don’t have those silly and annoying signs that state ” there is to be no hand held or texting in a school zone”. We actually hire and pay off duty police officers that allow us to keep in touch with family and friends while waiting in carpool line as they do what they are hired for: To watch after our precious children and make sure that we can conduct our business with out having to worry about uncontrolled kids from public school parents and VOLUNTEER crossing guards that cant see ten feet in front of them.
As far as mocking me in front of my back, I don’t pay the personal physical trainer $250.00 per session to gain sympathy or scorn from the likes of you.
OK, when you read most of our replies, it’s helpful to do the following:
1. Look at screen.
2. Tuck tongue firmly in left cheek, between gums and cheek.
3. Read.
4. When tongue tires of being on the left side, switch to the right.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 as necessary.
But I bow to your $250 per session personal trainer bill. Do you get to wave at him/her in the carpool lane, since with fees like that, his kids are probably attending the same school yours are?
And correct me if I’m wrong (Merrit, Jason?) but the HPISD crossing guards are paid. But I’m glad you can text in the carpool lane without being bothered to keep an eye on your kids. That’s super awesome. How many kids do those officers have to keep an eye on? Also, the cell phone ban is a HP, UP and City of Dallas ordinance, not some pesky rule HPISD made up. You probably should make sure your school isn’t zoned a school zone, because if it is, you can’t text there, private or not.
Hugs and kisses,
The Artist Generally Known as Bethany on Her Birth Certificate and Passport
If you can’t be first in line each day, you can try arriving at least ten minutes after the kids get out. The line was shorter and moved more quickly then (except for when bad cars refused to pull forward in the queue lane).
The queue lanes will be obvious to you even without a map: there will be a line of cars. After a day or so your kid will tell you which door s/he wants to use and you can enter the queue closest to that door.
Biggest problem is drivers who don’t use common sense. They don’t move forward and they do block crosswalks and cut into queues, sometimes doing U-turns. But if you try to do the right thing, you’ll be OK.
The crossing guards really cared about the kids. I took the ones I saw every day a treat once or twice during the year.
Bethany, that was so well done. Not once did you offer a choice between red, black or pink. So cooool.
Captcha: war quickly
Let’s hope that the private school that PSM’s (or is it PMS’s?) little darlings attend:
1) teach the students to use grammar and punctuation better than their parents. Get that woman an editor!
2) teach the value of a dollar - anyone who spends $250 per session with a “personal physical trainer” had better be getting a happy ending.
Lighten up PSM because we are public and proud!
Bethany is my new hero, sorry Merritt.
And clueless private school mom-I don’t know what school you sent your kid to but every one that I have been associated with frowned on texting while carpooling. They also frowned on drinking while carpooling-something tells me that your super cool school doesn’t frown on that either. I mean why else would you need a $250/hr personal trainer.
(flat tummied mommy of three 6 and under without a personal trainer)
It’s a joke people. Man you all are sensitive! Get over your bad selves!
After moving from a school district with bus service, the walk to the elementary was sweet and a little exercise for the kids.
Later the carpool lines (afternoon pickup mainly) were hellish for me (if hell is skinny blond b***hes in escalades or whatever must have vehicle of the moment). Arrive early or late or pick a spot away from the line.
Good luck. You’ll do just fine.
It really is that bad…at first. It took us a few weeks to figure out the best plan for us. Just don’t drive down Shenandoah and Granada in the afternoons. Those streets are BAD news. The best plan is to arrive early. Otherwise, follow the advice above. Get there a little late and have the kids walk a few blocks.
Make sure you watch the moms who just “dart” out of the line. In elementary we always drove to the front of the line and exited. I wont go into all the details, but last year after picking up my daughter, I was slowly driving toward Hillcrest (on I think Binkley) when someone decided to pull out of the middle of carpool line right out in front of me. I had to slam on my brakes to miss her. All of the sudden I couldnt figure out why my almost 4 year old son was in the front seat with me screaming! He had taken off his seat belt from his booster without me knowing and was thrown into the front seat!!!!! I was literally not even going 5 miles per hour. He was bleeding profusely — it was horrible. The woman kept on going absolutey CLUELESS!!! I drove to UP fire dept. and ran in with him — I was a wreck. They cleaned him up and calmed us all down. Then we spent the next three to four hours in the emergency room. He got six or seven stitches. Moral of the story — make sure your young ones stay belted in during carpool line and WATCH FOR CRAZY PEOPLE WHO JUST DART OUT OF LINE.