Greetings, PS101 families! This is Principal Korrol, and I’m putting out this message because I desperately need your help with something. As you know, morning arrival and dismissal in the afternoon can get very crowded here. We have 1,200 students. Add in parents, and we’re looking at about 2,500 people at any given moment around the perimeter of the school.

We have a challenge with parents on scooters, electric bikes, mopeds, and so forth.

We do already have signs that say, please dismount and get off your bike when you’re approaching the school. But it seems to not be enough, as we had a serious incident this morning, when a child was hit by one of these electric scooters, which a parent was on.

We need you, and I’m asking you, to please dismount and get off your bike when you’re approaching the school.

Please get off your bike, walk your child to arrival or walk to pick up your child in the afternoon, and do not get back on your scooter until you’re away from the school area.

First of all, nobody should be riding on the sidewalks anyway. But regardless. Please make sure you’re getting off your bike, your scooter, whatever the case is, even if it’s just a regular old bike, and walking your bike with your child, and not…riding that scooter, because again, doing this can hurt other people. Things happen, kids are running in all directions, this is part of our crowd. This is normal in terms of what kids are doing. We need our adults and parents to help us by ensuring, again, and I’m repeating the same thing, you dismount your bike.

So please pass this message on to each other. We will continue to have people outside and assist where we can, but it’s our school community, and it’s how we work together that ensures student safety.

Thank you for paying attention to this message. Again, we need your help. Thank you.

GK