Emergency Early Dismissal Procedures Due to Severe Winter Weather

In the event of severe winter weather occurring during the school day, it may be necessary to dismiss the students housed at Wauconda Middle School, Matthews Middle School and Wauconda High School earlier than usual.

The reason this action would be taken is to allow the buses an opportunity to drop off these older students and return in time to take the younger elementary students at Wauconda Grade School, Robert Crown School and Cotton Creek School home according to their regular dismissal schedule.

If this early dismissal was not done, the school district would run the risk of buses being unable to return the Wauconda Grade School, Robert Crown and Cotton Creek students to their homes,  or very late drop off for these same students.  In addition, the distrct hopes to avoid buses driving in a snowstorm when it is dark.

Parents of students in grades six through twelve need to be aware of the possibility that this situation could occur due to inclement winter weather.  If it does, the SchoolMessenger Service would enacted in an attempt to notify you that your sixth through twelfth grade student was coming home early.  As a result, please make appropriate arrangements with your sixth through twelfth grade student in order for them to gain access to shelter after being dismissed early due to weather conditions.  This type of situation does not occur often, but if it does you should be informed of the schools' actions so that you and your students can be prepared.