Ride the Bus to Parent Council

Consider riding the bus to the Parent Council meeting on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 in the cafeteria (in the back of the school). The meeting starts at 6:30 and ends at 7:30.

Are you interested in helping South get more information about alternative transportation options? Email hbeardswo@gmail if you would like to help make this happen.

Bike Racks Coming

New bike racks will be added in front of the main hall, facing 19th Avenue. Watch for these racks to be installed soon. These racks will provide more parking space for parents and visitors to South Eugene High School.

Please Don't Use the Visitor Parking Lot for ....

A note from the Administrator in Charge of Parking:

It is 7:55 a.m. and your are pulling into the visitor lot to drop off your student.  As you make the turn,someone ahead of you stops in the fire lane.  You stop and wait. Your student gets out, you're ready to leave, but the driver in front of you is doing the "I'm learning how to drive, so I get to drive to school" switch of drivers, plus unloading....what is that?!  Now cars are backed up onto 19th Ave. all the way to the west parking lot and beyond.

Sound familiar?  This has become the daily dance in the visitor parking lot in front of the school.  The visitor parking is simply not supposed to be used as a drop off point (check out your Parent-Student Handbook).  Rather, we encourage you to use the west, east and back parking lots to drop off your student. As well, entering the west or east lots from 19th and exiting onto Patterson will reduce the backlog of cars trying to exit the school lots via 19th Ave. You'll find less traffic, a shorter wait and a more relaxed morning experience.

Are you concerned about traffic problems around South Eugene High School?

Katja Heide, South Eugene parent, invites any parents interested in working together to tackle the many challenges our high traffic situation presents including: heavy automobile traffic mornings and afternoons, chaotic lunchtime traffic, and a newly renovated parking lot that offers little safety for students walking or biking. Katja would like parents to come together to raise awareness about this issue among students, faculty and staff as well working to obtain help from the city and LTD's Safer Routes to School program and to see how awareness of the benefits of alternate transportation might even become infused into the SEHS curriculum. If you would like to participate in a conversation about this, please click on the comments button at the end of this text and log your comments as an anonymous blogger. If you have questions on how to participate in this blog conversation, please e-mail Helen Garrett, Parent Council Convener at sehsparentcouncil@comcast.net