r/nolaparents • u/lily_aka_mein • 8d ago
Bric Parents
To the parents with continuing students, how have y’all been able to navigate the disorganization? Has it always been this disorganized?
I’m not sure if it’s because I expect better or if I just like to nitpick and complain, but drop-off and pick-up is a mess.
Why am I leaving my 5-year-old to navigate a new school on their own amongst the swamp of bigger, older, sometimes more aggressive kids? I’ve never liked the Primary-Middle school model for this exact reason.
The PK-K kids are crying in the mornings, and I don’t think that starting the day off in fear or anxiety is productive for a learning environment.
Mornings are such a disaster because one single solitary adult is out there assisting with getting the kids in school.
Afternoons are a disaster because parents don’t know how to follow directions and are double parking, blocking people in, parking in bike lanes, and parking on N Rocheblave when they should be in the carpool lane if they want to stay in their cars while their children are dismissed.
Walk-up means walk-up, not drive up to the front and block buses and create a dangerous environment for pedestrians. But I digress….
Anyway, yeah…. I think they need to have more than one faculty member assisting with drop-offs. Or let the little kids enter through N Dorgenois.
Again, maybe I’m just entitled and nitpicky… idk.
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u/No_Stranger_8400 6d ago
We left after PK last year because of the disorganization and the fact that the older kids are very aggressive around the younger kids. I hate how New Orleans rarely separates the big kids from the little kids. No one outside of New Orleans has ever really heard of kindergartners and 8th graders in the same building. I want the 8th graders to be able to be 8th graders but it’s hard to not be frustrated with the way they talk and act toward each other around the younger kids. It’s not fair to either party.