At some point Maine West HS in District 207, made a change that has me scratching my head at to what is wrong with these people. In the back entrance of the school where the police assist drivers in and out of the parking lot for safety, drivers are no longer able to utilize the driving circle to drop off their children safely.
The District now has a paid employee sitting in a van blocking the drive way for 45 or so minutes every morning, so parents are unable to use the drive for dropping off their kids in front of the back doors of the school.
There are now forced to drop their kids off in the student parking lot. This is where all the kids walking to school are slowing moving towards the school in their zombie crawl looking exclusively at their phones. Not to mention all of the newly minted drivers. I have concerns about them. Some of the concern which may stem from my own son getting into an accident on the first day of solo driving with a newly minted license…
I never could get an explanation as to why we are no longer able to do the drop off in a logical fashion. But that seems to be the way of District 207 and Maine West HS. As a CPA I have to wonder how much the guy sitting in the van is costing me as a taxpayer to sit and do nothing for 45 minutes a day with and without benefits.