Carpool schedule for five families

A fair school carpool rotation for five families: mornings and afternoons, taking turns one school day at a time, with the afternoon starting one family later so nobody drives both ends of the same day.

Four weeks of turns

Day	Morning drop-off	Afternoon pickup
Week 1, Mon	GGarcia	LLee
Week 1, Tue	LLee	PPatel
Week 1, Wed	PPatel	NNguyen
Week 1, Thu	NNguyen	SSmith
Week 1, Fri	SSmith	GGarcia
Week 2, Mon	GGarcia	LLee
Week 2, Tue	LLee	PPatel
Week 2, Wed	PPatel	NNguyen
Week 2, Thu	NNguyen	SSmith
Week 2, Fri	SSmith	GGarcia
Week 3, Mon	GGarcia	LLee
Week 3, Tue	LLee	PPatel
Week 3, Wed	PPatel	NNguyen
Week 3, Thu	NNguyen	SSmith
Week 3, Fri	SSmith	GGarcia
Week 4, Mon	GGarcia	LLee
Week 4, Tue	LLee	PPatel
Week 4, Wed	PPatel	NNguyen
Week 4, Thu	NNguyen	SSmith
Week 4, Fri	SSmith	GGarcia

trips for the Garcias

trips for the Lees

trips for the Patels

trips for the Nguyens

trips for the Smiths

With five families and two trips a day, each family drives about 2.0 trips a week. When a holiday falls on a school day, the rotation simply picks up the next school day where it left off, so nobody loses or gains a turn.

Other ways to split it

Same weekdays every week: each family keeps its days (the Garcias on Mondays, the Lees on Tuesdays…). Easy to remember, but holidays land unevenly: Monday families lose the most trips.
A week each: one family does every trip for a week, then hands over. Fewer handoffs, but a long week for the driving family.

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