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Making Dismissal Changes

Parents can help us ensure your child is dismissed according to your plans by doing the following:

Transportation changes: The greatest challenge we have at dismissal time is to give correct instructions to students when families change their transportation plans frequently or change them late in the school day, causing confusion with the students and staff as to where the child is supposed to go at dismissal (bus, car, or walker).

  • Please note that you can make transportation changes in our dismissal management system, SMART tag, when the need arises, but it is best to be as consistent as possible. To help eleminate dismissal confusion for your child, dismissal changes should be rare. 
  • If your child will be going home an alternate way, please make the change in SMARTTag on or before the day of the transportation change. If you do not receive a confirmation email reply, please contact the front office by phone at 512.533.7500. 
  • Please understand that the safety of your child is of vital importance to us. To avoid errors and confusion, transportation changes cannot be accepted after 2:00 PM the day of the change.
  • It is important that students complete their school day; thus, early dismissal should be a rare occurrence reserved only for emergency situations.  For the safety of students, please do not schedule an early dismissal for the purpose of signing out a student between 2:30 and 3:00 pm.

Siblings: Whenever possible, it is best if all siblings utilize the same method of transportation and that they check with each other when they are meeting for dismissal. A student who notices the sibling is not there can alert a staff member in time to help us catch mistakes before they happen.