The student drop-off line at school might be one of the most important parts of the day. It’s the moment we parents say goodbye, offer a last hug or wave, and send our kids off for a full day of—well, hopefully learning.

When we attended our son’s Kinder-Camp earlier this month, the principal made it sound like the drop-off process was going to be pure chaos for us first-time kindergarten parents. She even recommended rehearsing it the day before school started—like we were prepping for the driver’s test.

Now, I’m not knocking her advice, but honestly, it turned out not to be necessary. Maybe she was just trying to set expectations really low, so we’d walk away feeling like champions when it went smoothly. Kind of like me and the Carolina Panthers—if you keep expectations low, disappointment hurts less.

After a week and a half of drop-offs, I can confidently say this: the teachers running that line must have been trained by the same people who perfected the Chick-fil-A drive-thru. It is the most efficient operation I’ve ever seen.

So hats off to the teachers at my son’s school. They’ve got this down. If they manage our kids half as well as they manage the car line, then our little ones are in very good hands.

-Matt Webb