Policy 5026: Transportation for District Sponsored Activities or Athletic Events
CHAPPAQUA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ATHLETIC TRANSPORTATION
Individual Event Release for Horace Greeley High School, R.E. Bell Middle School and Seven Bridges Middle School
It is expected that, where the District provides transportation for students to a school- sponsored field trip, athletic event, extracurricular activity or any other similar event, students will travel to and from the activity or athletic competition with their team or group. The District shall provide transportation back to either the point of departure or to the appropriate school. Each student shall travel to and from the activity or event with the group or team unless:
- the student's parent/legal guardian provides the District with prior written notice authorizing an alternative form of transportation for such student; or
- intervening circumstances make such transportation impractical, in which case a representative of the District shall remain with the student until the student's parent/legal guardian has been contacted and informed of the intervening circumstances and the student is delivered to his/her parent/guardian.
A student must remain with the group or team at all times and may not leave the group to meet a parent/legal guardian elsewhere. If the child is not picked up by the designated individual when the bus is ready to depart, the student will return to the District site on the bus. Under no circumstances will student participants be permitted to drive themselves to or from a school sponsored event, in which they are participating and for which the District is providing transportation. This includes athletic practices that occur off-site: skiing, bowling, swimming, tennis, golf and ice hockey.
At the start of the season, the request for an alternative transportation home must be made (online registration software system for sports). In unavoidable situations, written authorization may be completed at the activity site by the parent and/or legal guardian and provided to the coach or activity supervisor prior to obtaining release of the student.
Individuals Authorized to Provide Transportation Home From Events
Only a child’s parent, guardian or permanent caregiver may transport a student home from an away event. A parent or guardian may authorize an alternative driver who is a non-student adult to drive their child home from an event using the District-provided permission slip/release form. This must be presented to the supervisor of the event at the time of dismissal from the activity.
The aforementioned third-party release must be presented to the coach at the time of dismissal from the activity for an individual other than a guardian to pick up your child. This must be printed and handed to the coach at the event.
Under extenuating circumstances, exceptions may be made to this procedure, by a District or building-level administrator. This decision will be made under emergency circumstances and will be communicated directly to the activity supervisor or coach in writing prior to the conclusion of the event.
It is expected that students will travel to and from athletic competitions or activities with their teams or groups, but in unusual circumstances parents may pick them up.