In an effort to further make the pick-up of your student(s) at the end of the school day quick and easy for all of our families, beginning this coming Monday, August 23rd, we are instituting wave times for our families to follow.
Wave times are our best option to prevent vehicles from spilling out of our parking lot back onto Ingram and Midhurst Roads and will significantly reduce the amount of time a family has to sit in the parking lot. Carline Waves are already common practice for families at other Great Hearts campuses that have found it very helpful to plan all after-school activities with assurance.
To determine the most effective wave times, we calculated how many cars represent each child/family at each grade level and then tried to group students in a way that allowed our youngest and most tired scholars out the doors first. Please be assured that students who have a later wave time will not be idle but will be using this time to read quietly and work on homework with a teacher present. GHWH now has over 1100 students. Each vehicle that arrives before the assigned wave time will add an unnecessary amount of vehicles to the parking lot and therefore hold up traffic.
Wave times work best when everyone in our community abides by them. If you are not at your appropriate wave time, you may be asked to re-queue inline or park. Therefore, it will be necessary for every driver to do their best to plan arrival at or within the wave time designated to their student(s).