• Introduction: Preparing for an emergency
• Quick Checklist
• Your emergency preparedness kit
• Keeping informed
• Contact information
• Handling mail safely
• Reporting suspicious activity
• When electrical power is lost
• Emergency shelter
• Checking on relatives and neighbors
• Evacuation
• Chemical/biological emergencies
• Emergency planning for pets
• Emergency planning for businesses
• Making financial preparations
• Children in school
• Keeping warm
• Links to Additional Information

Falcon Heights Home Guide to Emergency Preparedness

Children in School

In the event of a community or national emergency or ordered evacuation, parents should check the local media for announcements about changes in school openings and closings.

News about changes in school schedules is routinely disseminated through most metropolitan radio and televisions stations and local school system cable stations, hotlines and Web sites.

While parents can always pick up their children from school during the school day, the best place for children during a regional crisis might very well be the school itself, where they will remain under supervision and be protected from hazards outside.

If parents do go to school to pick up a child, they should be prepared to present the identification required by the school system - usually a photo ID.

Generally, unless evacuation of a particular school is ordered, students will be kept at school until school officials can safely transport them home. Relying on the schools to transport students home on normal bus routes will help avoid gridlock in and around schools and help keep roads clear for essential emergency vehicles.

Under extreme circumstance buses may be delayed, and the schools may ask parents to assist with picking up their children. Parents should check the local media for announcements about school decisions.

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