OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Some Putnam City Public Schools parents say they’re frustrated after an elementary school stopped allowing parents to walk up to the building to pick up their kids in the afternoon.
Putnam City Public Schools says administrators stopped allowing parents at Rollingwood Elementary to walk-up to the school to pick up their kids this year, in order to make the dismissal process safer.
Now, children who do not ride a bus, attend after school care or have parents who pick them up via the school’s car pickup line will be let out across a busy street or into a neighborhood to walk home with their parents.
Long pick up lines after school cause traffic on main road
Some parents say the change has only made dismissal more dangerous.
It was this time exactly one year ago, when News 4 reported parents at Rollingwood Elementary were getting creative after long afternoon pickup lines caused long waits, and traffic jams.
“The pickup line is pretty long and so we end up just parking along the street and then doing a walk up,” one parent said last year . “So it works for us, but it is a little bit of a hassle.”