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Greenville City Schools
GCS Crossing Guards
Jeffrey Cassell
Greenville City Schools has two crossing guards that are employed by
the school district. One crossing guard is located at Ohio Street
and Greenmoore Court. The second paid crossing guard is at East
Main Street and Orchard Drive. The school provides another
crossing guard as part of a duty for a school employee, which is
located on Ohio Street in front of the school at Cambridge
Avenue. All three of these cross walks are displayed with the
cross walk marked on the road and with signs by street.
The speed limit on Ohio Street is 35 mph unless students are
present. When students are present, it is dropped to 20
mph. Students are presence between 7:00 am to 9:00 am in the
mornings and 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm in the afternoon. The city has
recently put up some extra lights on the sides to help drivers see that
students are in the cross walk.
The speed limit on East Main Street is 25 mph all the time, but drivers
need to be aware of students crossing at Orchard Drive with the
crossing guard. Speed is a critical factor in allowing our
crossing guards to do their job. A crossing guard cannot stop
traffic in the sense that they order you to stop from the curb, but if
a person is in the cross walk, a car must stop. This is according
to Ohio Revised Code 4511.46.
Our crossing guards are trained to help students across the road.
They wait for a break in traffic to enter the cross walk and stand in
the middle of traffic, putting their body between students and
vehicles. They get to know every child’s name, notices if a student has
forgotten their backpack, they hurry tardy teenagers along and
cheerfully wishes everyone a good morning and a good afternoon. They
are at their post without fail, rain or snow, on frigid days and
blazing hot ones.
Our crossing guards are wearing a bright vest or jacket with a blinking
stop paddle that lights up. They stay in the intersection until
all students have made it across the street. If you are stopped
at a cross walk, please wait until the crossing guard gets to the
curb.
Having an adult crossing guard is considered the “gold standard” in
having students cross the road. Greenville City Schools is proud
and lucky to have two Greenville citizens help with this very important
duty. Working together, our students will be safe.
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