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Transportation
DROP-OFF/PICK-UP OF STUDENTS
Freeman Street: Those whose last name begins with A-M,
please enter on 17th and Freeman.
The right side of the street is a “NO-PARKING ZONE” available for drop-off and pick-up only. Parents will be required to remain with
their car when using Freeman
Street, pulling over to an available space on
either side of the road for their children to either enter, or leave their
vehicle. If no space is available,
parents will need to either proceed to the downstairs parking lot or circle the
block. Blocking Freeman Street either to wait for a space
to open up, or wait for children to enter a car creates a traffic pile-up, is
unsafe for children and will not work. To facilitate quicker movement here, the
door next to the 3rd grade classroom will also be open in the
morning and the afternoon, enabling parents to pull over further down
Freeman. Afternoon pick-up
here will remain with last names beginning with A-M.
Two cross-walk zones will be established, clearly leading to
both doors and parents are strongly
encouraged to require their children to use the cross-walks whenever
possible. This may mean the
occasional wet shoe or mussed hairdo, all in the interest of safety. Further, we are encouraging parents of
older children to use the left side
of Freeman whenever possible so that the right side closest to the curb can be
available to parents of smaller children.
Downstairs, main
lot: Those whose last name
begins with N through Z, please enter at the first drive-way on Spring Garden Rd.
This area may be used for drop-off and/or pick-up. Drivers must remain in the car or, if
necessary, park to enter the school.
If children are not ready for pick-up, please circle the parking lot
until they are present to quickly hop in the car and leave.
HANDICAP PARKING ALERT
We have had several tickets given
out each year for people parking in the handicap zones in the front of
school. We have an actual patrol
person who is assigned to our parking lot from the City of Portland Police
Department. Unless you have a
handicap tag hanging in your window, you may not park there. Tickets have been as high at $360. This also includes a field trip bus
driver. So no one is immune from
receiving these tickets. ^
School Closure
Archdiocesan policy requires that we follow the decision of Portland
Public Schools concerning snow days.
Listen to the early morning radio reports on KEX (1190 AM) and KINK (102
FM), or these TV stations: KATU (Ch. 2), KOIN, (Ch. 6), or KGW (Ch.8). We are in the “Wilson
Cluster” in case the schools are closed by areas. If a violent storm comes up during the
school day and we need to dismiss early, we will use a phone tree and/or get
word out over the radio/TV, and our e-mail and voice mail message system. We can release your child to one of the
people designated on the emergency release form. We will try our best to use this method
when the status of opening or closing school is in question. However, there are times when power or
phone outages shut down our voice mail system, making it impossible to
communicate with families in this way.
Please continue to check the St. Clare website for updated information
on school closures or late openings.
We will be able to keep the website updated with current information
during school closure days unless there is a power outage.
Remember
that there is no Daycare if school is closed due to the weather. If school opens two hours late, the
Daycare opens two hours late, and so forth. This means that if school opens at 10:15, daycare is open at 9:00, not at 8:15 (two hours after the usual 7:00 a.m. opening of daycare). ^