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Superintendent's Message: Student Safety
To
parents, students, teachers, principals, staff
and citizens of Duval County:
As you are well aware, the safety of our students is one of our highest priorities. We are again faced with tragic events in our community and parents are legitimately concerned about the safety of their children.
I am providing you the following information as a reminder of how important it is that we continue to reinforce with our students the following safety tips and procedures:
- Be aware of your surroundings when walking to/from school or your bus stop. Do not talk to strangers, and if a stranger approaches you, get away from him/her as quickly as possible. Notify a parent/guardian/teacher or other trusted adult immediately if a stranger attempts to approach you or behaves in an inappropriate manner.
- Never walk alone. Walk in groups with other students and, if possible, with an adult. If possible, organize a group of neighborhood children and their parents to walk with to school or the bus stop. During the course of your walk, do not stray from this group.
- Make sure to obey traffic and pedestrian signals, and choose a route that has the most support for walkers and bicycle riders (with appropriate traffic signals, marked crosswalks, school crossing signs, school crossing zone speed limits or signs, group crossing areas, school crossing guard, and/or law enforcement officer support).
Please continue to emphasize these safety tips with your students, and please remind parents/guardians of these safety procedures as well. The responsibility for the transportation of students to and from our schools has to be shared between the students, parent/guardians and the school district. To truly keep our children safe, we must all work together as partners.
Thank you.
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Ed Pratt-Dannals
Superintendent
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