Emergency dismissal Procedures

Please note there are two options for emergency dismissal:

11:30 AM for all Ox Ridge students for Morning Emergency Dismissal

1:25 PM for all Ox Ridge students for Afternoon Emergency Dismissal

The Emergency Phone Chain will be activated in the event of an EMERGENCY DISMISSAL.  Please remember:

•Lunch will NOT be served if we have a Morning Emergency Dismissal.

•Lunch WILL be served if we have an Afternoon Emergency Dismissal.

•Kindergartners will go home on their morning bus (“number” bus not “letter” bus) with all grades.

How it Works

•Room Mothers contact parents when an Emergency Dismissal is called.

•Room Mothers call the Emergency Chain contacts if they cannot reach the parents. 

•If Room Mothers do not make personal contact with anyone, the school secretary will be notified.  Please note that those children will still be sent home, regardless if contact is made or not.

•Each family should have a contingency plan so that children know what to do if delivered home, at any time, and an adult is not at home.

The Finer Points

•Ox Ridge School assumes that each child will follow the bus departure plan they brought to school that day.  If your child was scheduled to take a bus home with another child, those plans will stay in effect.

•If you planned to pick up your child at the end of the regular school day, he/she will be sent home on the bus instead.  You MUST notify the school no later than 10 minutes prior to dismissal if you wish to pick him/her up at school at the appropriate Emergency Dismissal time.

•Likewise, if your child was scheduled to be picked up by another child’s parent on an Emergency Dismissal day, they will be sent home on that child’s bus, unless the school is notified.

•There is no bus for the YMCA during Emergency Dismissals, so all children who usually ride the Y bus will be sent home on their regular bus. 

Please remember -- if the forecast predicts snow or extreme weather, stay close to the phone, monitor school closings over the TV and radio and carry your cell phone with you.

Please call Lauri Waldron (656-4403) or Victoria Bieler (656-3096) if you have any questions.