Provide each child with a good place to do homework, and monitor the homework and the child's progress in each subject. Show you expect a good effort. It's also important to send your children off to school well rested, well fed and feeling good as they start the day. Positive expectations and supportive attitudes will make a difference in your child's school year. Recognize that traffic volumes and patterns change around schools as parents drop kids off and pick them up.
School buses are on roads - obey the stop signs and flashing lights.
Keep our kids safe. Corvallis schools face a year of transition as classes begin Wednesday. Several schools will be preparing to receive those students a year hence. District officials have committees preparing decisions about middle schools. The decision has been made to replace Highland View and Western View middle schools with a single new one, because of their hazards when an earthquake hits.