Drop-Off and Pick-Up Safety at Horace Mann
General Safety Rules
Blue Zone Rules
Parking is prohibited in the Blue Zone at the following times:
It is considered parking if you are in the Blue Zone for more than one minute. According to the Newton City ordinance authorizing the Blue Zone, stopping in the Blue Zone for student pick-up is limited to one minute only.
Vehicles may not be left unattended in the Blue Zone during the “blue zone times” for any reason.
Vehicles violating the Blue Zone are subject to a $25 traffic ticket from Newton police.
- Never leave an unattended vehicle running. This is illegal in Massachusetts and is extremely dangerous at a school.
- Never leave a child unattended in a car, not even for a minute.
- No stopping in the handicap spaces or the adjacent loading areas for any reason without a handicapped placard. This is state law.
- No stopping at the entrance to the teacher parking area.
- Do not double park.
- Drop-off/pick-up only in the blue zone or from a designated, marked parking space on Albemarle Road. Dropping children in traffic lanes is not only unlawful, it is dangerous.
Blue Zone Rules
Parking is prohibited in the Blue Zone at the following times:
- 7:50 – 9:05 a.m.
- 12 – 1 p.m.
- 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
It is considered parking if you are in the Blue Zone for more than one minute. According to the Newton City ordinance authorizing the Blue Zone, stopping in the Blue Zone for student pick-up is limited to one minute only.
Vehicles may not be left unattended in the Blue Zone during the “blue zone times” for any reason.
Vehicles violating the Blue Zone are subject to a $25 traffic ticket from Newton police.