DHS meeting and Registration day

I attended the Dunwoody High School meeting on Wednesday night regarding construction updates at the school. The meeting turned into an update about the parking situation going into the new year.

The construction team has come up with a viable plan to park the entire faculty, the construction personel and 100 Seniors. The parking seems very tight and will hopefully be very carefully regimented. As a parent the current plan seems scary. The idea is to route traffic dropping students off through student and faculty parking and in between the school and learning cottages. There will be police direction the first day and as needed for the first week. My advice to any parent is to encourage their child to walk or ride their bike to the school - it simply seems like too much activity on too small a piece of property with too many inexperienced drivers and students wandering about to be safe.

The plan also calls for the removal of the trailers in the next couple of months - date unconfirmed. At that time there will be 60 additional parking spaces available, but still very tight in a school of 1500+ students.

Call it "green" but I still think walking or riding a bike if you are close enough to the school makes the most sense.

On Thursday I attended two District 1 school registrations, Austin and Peachtree Charter Middle School. Austin, which I have attended for the last 8 years was an absolute mob scene.
I can't pinpoint exactly why it was so much more crowded and difficult to navigate then in years past, but it did leave me thinking that something needs to changed for the future. Peachtree was alright and I heard from many that both Dunwoody Elementary and Dunwoody High School registrations were very chaotic.

Wouldn't it be smart to instigate a system where returning students only have to show up with current proof of residency and pick up their schedules? I feel strongly that all paperwork could be completed in the spring and over the summer the administrators come up with a plan for returning students and to accomodate for new students by looking at past enrollment.