Student Pick-up Procedures

Blank Pick-Up Pass

School safety is a high priority for the Tahoma School District and Lake Wilderness Elementary School. As a result of our commitment to providing the safest possible environment for students, our school has developed the following policy for student pick-up.

Dismissal During the School Day:

  1. The parent must send a note or call the office AND come into the office to sign out the student.
  2. The office staff will call the classroom. The student will be sent to the office for pick-up.

Permanent Pick-up at Dismissal Time:

  1. Parents who intend to pick up their student on a permanent basis will need to send a signed and dated note to the classroom teacher. This note will be kept on file in the school office and a bright yellow “Permanent Pick-Up Badge” will be issued to the parent.
  2. If this routine varies in any way, notification must be sent to the teacher or to the office.
  3. Please DO NOT enter the bus area when picking up your child. Parents must wait for their child in the designated waiting area at the benches.

Occasional Pick-Up at Dismissal Time:

  1. Please send a note to the child’s teacher in the morning or call the office if the pick-up is a last-minute necessity. The parent/adult must check into the office to sign out the student. The parent or adult will be required to show identification if the office staff does not know them.
  2. The parent/adult will be given a white pick-up slip and can then proceed to the pick-up area. Parents who have not written a note or called the office will need to arrive before 3:00 p.m. in order to complete the identification and sign-out process. It is important that there is enough time to notify teachers and for students to safely walk to the office before busses arrive. ONLY those designated by parents or named on the emergency card will be allowed to pick up students.
  3. At the end of the day, students to be picked up will go to the bench area in front of building A. The parent/adult hands the white pick-up slip to the designated staff monitor and the child is released to the adult. The office retains a carbon copy of all white slips and there is a recorded signature of the adult who has picked up the student.
  4. No student will be released at the classroom door or inside the campus. The only exception: Volunteer parents who are in the room at the end of the day may take their child from the classroom IF they have a pick-up slip. The pick-up slip can be obtained when the parent signs in to volunteer. The pick-up slip is then given to the monitor at the benches.
  5. Group pick-up - If your child needs to stay after school for a meeting or a class (except Zero Hour classes) please send a note to their teacher with the necessary details. This note will be routed to the office and if it is a permanent situation, it will be put in the student’s file. The group leader will need to stop in the office to get a “Group Pick-Up” form and meet the students at the benches. The children are checked off on the form; the leader signs it and gives it to the monitor at the benches.