We’re implementing a two-week pilot of an 8:15–8:45 a.m. arrival window for Primary starting March 4 to relieve the car line bottleneck. For those who’ve done this, which staffing patterns (e.g., two guides at curb, one floater) and parent communications worked, and any pitfalls we should expect in week one?
We kept “two guides at curb” and put the floater with a walkie about 50 yards before the loop to meter cars during the 8:15–8:45 window; that upstream metering stopped the 8:15 surge and let the curb team focus on buckles, as long as the floater has a clear sightline. Would you try the floater-as-meter for week one and then shift them back to curb once arrivals even out?
We issued color-coded hang tags by intended slot (8:15, 8:30, 8:45) and enforced a hard “no park-and-chat” with a 30-second skip lane to pull lingerers out of traffic. Biggest week-one pitfall was car seats — send a 20-second Sunday video showing curb-side exits and require backpacks on laps to shave seconds in the 8:15–8:45 window.