Blast! 9.7.26

In the event of a delayed dismissal (typically due to lightning in the area), students will be housed in their respective classroom buildings to wait out the storm. Please remain in your vehicles. If it is safe, PLE staff will direct you one at a time to the front of your building, where you may exit your vehicle and sign your child out. We will not be able to bring your child to the car, nor release them to your car. You must sign them out and escort them to your vehicle personally. If there are no staff outside to assist you, please remain safely in your vehicle until the storm passes. We appreciate your patience during this process, and please be sure that we want to get them home as safely and quickly as you do. 

Unfortunately, even when we are able to dismiss on time, other schools experience a Delayed Dismissal, which affects our buses and results in later arrival times for our students. When this happens, you should receive a message from the Transportation department and a message on the OCPS Transportation website.  Unfortunately, the buses are not operated by the school, and we get our information from the same dashboard you do.  We will try to send a message from the school, but we often don’t know whether the bus will be late or by how much until it actually happens.