Car Rider Drop Off Etiquette for Dummies

Here we sit at t minus 9 days and counting of school and yet we seem to have taken massive strides BACKWARDS when it comes to the art of successfully dropping your child off for school while not angering the woman in the white Honda minivan to the point of homicidal rage.
I am assuming that since you are actually in front of the school then you and the passengers in your vehicle (student included)  know what our end result here is: get out of the freaking car and walk into school. Upon turning into the school's drive, all food and beverages should be consumed, student should be fully clothed down to shoes, items needed for school clenched firmly in hands, and all conversations should be completed. This leaves you with merely having to slow your car down to a slow roll and push usher your child out of the vehicle.  Save for very few exceptions, this means that your student can be released safely at any  point in front of the school and does not have to be driven up to the actual front door of the school.  I think we can safely say that the first 5 vehicles in line can and SHOULD release their children and then ... and this is vital ... DRIVE AWAY. You aren't sending junior off to war - it is just school.  You'll see him/her again.
I sincerely hope this has helped clear up this obviously murky subject matter.  I was unaware of my stellar kid dropping off skills until faced with the startling inability of others to safely and quickly drop the children off at school. 
Oh ... and because I'm sure it isn't obvious at pick up time, just reverse the process. And for those of you intent upon cutting in line ... I will deal with you later and fair warning - it ain't gonna be pretty.  I hates me some line cutters.