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EMERGENCY PROCEDURES |
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An Emergency Action Committee, which included administrators, teachers, parents and students, met last year and published the following procedures.
GETTING STUDENTS HOME FROM STUYVESANT
There are several steps that parents of Stuyvesant High School students can take to get their children home safely in case of an emergency. Families should make more than one plan for reaching home and communicating with each otherŅand should discuss which to use in different types of emergencies. While the school administration can provide some assistance, parents should be sure their children know how to reach home and what to do in case they cannot get home.
As we saw on Sept. 11, 2001, there are situations in which telephones are unusable, subways and buses are unreliable and everyone has to improvise. Here are steps that parents and students can take to minimize confusion:
[1] Each child and parent should become knowledgeable about the geography of New York City, specifically where his or her home is in relation to the school. This might require the purchase of a map of the city.
[2] Each child should know how to get to and from school by public transportation. Families should plan several alternate routes in case the primary route is not available. The method for this should be an examination of the subway and surface transportation maps available from the MTA, scouting the routes available, as well as a physical examination of the geography of the city between school and home.
[3] Students and parents should identify other students from their neighborhood/borough with whom they can group together to go home and look out for each other.
[4] Parents should also identify secondary locations to which students can go to in an emergency. This could be a parent's workplace, a relative's home or workplace, or a classmate's home.
[5] In emergencies, communication is vital. Parents should make sure that their children have all parents' contact numbers in addition to the home number. In addition, parents should impress upon their children the importance of following instructions during all fire drills and emergency evacuations.
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