School Safety Patrol
CAN YOU THINK OF A BETTER LESSON?
The AAA School Safety Patrol program has helped improve safe travel to and from school for more than 85 years. Statistics show a 93 percent reduction in pedestrian fatalities thanks to educational efforts and safety improvements near schools. Since 1949, AAA has awarded lifesaving medals to 373 patrollers who have saved the lives of another person while on duty.
Instill the lifelong learning benefits brought about by the AAA School Safety Patrol and help your school become a safer place. Your young patrollers will benefit too, as they learn:
Leadership and organizational expertise
Safe mobility skills and proper traffic interaction
Responsibility and commitment
Volunteerism and duty
The important role of being a dependable citizen
To view our 2005 National Patroller of the Year, click
here.
Safety patrollers are trained to direct classmates at street crossings and along designated safe routes to school; to assist in school bus loading, unloading and transit; and to perform other safety-related functions at the direction of school officials. They are selected on the basis of leadership potential, academic standing and character. Start a patrol in your school today. To download AAA's School Safety Patrol Operations Manual, click
here.
Participation Requirements:
Orientation for Patrol Supervisors: If the school will be posting students indoors, in school buses or on school grounds, orientation will be provided by a AAA staff person via telephone. If the school will be posting students at outdoor intersections, the School Safety Patrol Supervisor and a police officer, if available, must attend a 90-minute orientation conducted by a AAA staff person at the school. They, in turn, will train the patrollers.
A signed participation/order form. The principal needs to sign the participation form.
Material Costs:
Belts - $4
Badges - up to 25 free; each badge above 25 costs $1.50
To join the more than 500,000 AAA School Safety Patrollers in 50,000 schools nationwide in helping make schools a safer place, contact Eileen Beetar at 516/ 873-2377or
e-mailAAA Traffic Safety.
