Parents of Natomas Unified School District elementary students learned a couple weeks before returning to school of a policy change: guardians could no longer accompany their child on campus during drop-off and pick-up and would instead have to wait outside the school gate.
In previous years, parents were used to walking their young children to their classrooms in the morning. For parent Aaron Heredia, being on campus allowed he and his wife to have short, informal check-ins with their teacher, observe his child with other students and connect with other school families.
“We got to know our son’s teacher last year, seeing her every day at drop-off and pick up (…). It was invaluable,” Heredia said. Now, most of these interactions have to happen via an app…