Southwest Walkway Nears Completion

Please remind your students ---

The walkway will be installed over spring break and ready to open Tuesday April 7.

Students will return on Monday and teachers will provide instructions and the walkway protocol.

On Tuesday, the old link will be closed and the new Walkway will be open.

On Monday – April 6 – Please inform your students that the old Link will be closed at the end of the day on Monday April 6.

Starting at 6 am on Tuesday, April 7

Southwest High School

Protocol for the New Walkway between East and West buildings

The walkway will extend from door 13 to door 16.  There are doors on both ends and emergency doors to the outside near the ends of the walkway.

The EAST building and Walkway will be OPEN 6:00 am to 4:30 pm during regular school days.  The EAST building and walkway will be CLOSED before and after those hours and on Saturday and Sunday.

The walkway will be OPEN during all the passing times.

The walkway will be CLOSED during scheduled class period times.

An EA will be assigned to each end of the walkway to eliminate the traffic between periods.

At the start of each period the walkway will be cleared by an EA and CLOSED

After 4:30 pm there will NO access to the EAST building except by coaches and teachers with keys to doors 17 0r 19.  There will be NO access to lockers, classrooms, etc. after 4:30 pm

After 4:30 pm it will not be possible to get into the East building to retrieve items from lockers, etc.

Thank you.

Bill Smith

Southwest High School, Principal