Dear Parents,

I’d like to use this week’s Parent Bulletin to highlight a few important reminders for our school families. These protocols can be found in the Bacich School Parent Handbook.

The first reminder involves the staggered dismissal for our students. Due to the size of our school and the number of children at each grade level, we must dismiss students during different times, specifically 1:10 p.m. (Kindergarten), 2:20 p.m. (Grade 1 and 2), and 2:53 p.m. (Grade 3 and 4). These times are slightly different for our minimum day Wednesdays. Traffic around our school campus and carline cannot handle all students being dismissed at the same time. (View dismissal the times on Bacich Bell Schedule)

We realize that the staggered dismissal is not ideal for many of our families. We invite those families who must wait for the second dismissal to wait in the area in front of the office or in the kindergarten playground. Students must have parent or guardian supervision, at this time. Please do not wait on the playground equipment near the playing field, as it disrupts our P.E. classes, which are in session until the end of the school day at 2:53 p.m.

We also ask that our students not wear Apple watches or other similar devices to school. We are finding these devices disruptive to the school day and student’s learning, and our young students are misplacing and losing them.

We appreciate your support and attention to these requests.