Can you imagine a school telling parents they can’t walk their young children to school, no matter how close they live?
Pick your child up from school and you could be charged with trespassing. That’s the threat against parents at Bear Branch Elementary School in Magnolia, Texas.
It’s the school’s way of keeping parents who live close to the school from walking on school grounds.
Bear Branch is losing students over the pick up policy, that’s been in place since the beginning of this school year, but school officials apparently don’t care.
The principal has decided that no matter how close a student lives to the school, the student must either take the bus, or the parent must wait in a long car pickup line. Try to walk your student off the campus and you could face criminal charges.
Parent Wendy Jarman told Fox 26, principal Holly Ray is “threatening to arrest people.”
Jarman pulled her children out of the school and placed them in private school. She lives in the neighborhood behind the school. Her kids were walkers, and she escorted them, but they can’t do that anymore. That’s because County constables are on hand to arrest anyone who dares walk their children to school.
Frank Young is one who has been cited. He also lives close to the school and he also pulled his children out of it. Young says no effort to negotiate a better policy or even hundreds of signatures on a petition got the district to change the policy or bully tactics.
The school district said in a statement that it fully supports Principal Ray, saying the goal is a safe dismissal process.