BAD WEATHER EARLY DISMISSAL REMINDER

      If bad weather is forecast for the day and you have already sent your child to school, please do the following:

1.     Listen to the radio throughout the morning for reports of early dismissals. If it is announced that the Newburgh public schools are closing that means that Bishop Dunn will also be closing.

2.     Look out the window occasionally (We’ve learned not to assume anything in this business).

3.     Check your cell phone and answering machines regularly for messages from school.

4.     DO NOT CALL IMMEDIATELY, but wait for a call from our office, if your child normally takes the bus home and you don’t want them sent home because no one is there. Since different school districts begin picking up children at different times, check our website, www.bdms.org. where we will have an emergency notification section that will be updated with early dismissal details for specific districts.

5.     Call our main number to let us know where we can reach you only if you are not going to be near a phone that we have listed for daytime contacts.

6.     Be aware that if we cannot make contact with a parent that we will still send children home on their bus, if you have indicated on emergency forms earlier in the year that your child can be sent home without notification.

7.     If you are picking up your child by car, you will be able to pick them up only at the back door or library at the designated closing time, which will be listed on the website emergency notification link. Because we are trying to coordinate very complicated bus dismissal procedures, we ask you not to come to the main office to pick up your child.