The DC are at two different primary schools, which are fairly close to each other, with a secondary school nearby.
DH usually does the school pick-up. He's away for the weekend, so I had to do it today. For pick-up at the first school, I parked around the corner on a side road. As I pulled out to drive off again, a group of three boys, from the secondary school, came running down the middle of the road. I stopped and waited for them to pass. They made no attempt to get on to the pavement. Half-way to the second school, I turned off a mini-roundabout, and a girl stepped out right in front of me, and I had to slam on the brakes. Then, about 200m down the road, another couple of girls ran across the road just in front of me again.
By the time I got to the second school, I actually felt a bit shaky. I could easily have hit any of these children, and I'm a very careful driver. My lovely ex-childminder actually had a child from this school run out in front of her once, and ended up with a broken pelvis.
Traffic is very bad around the area at the beginning and end of the day, due to the close proximity of these schools (plus another primary school), and I wonder whether the school need to advise the pupils to exercise more caution. I'm considering contacting them to express my concern. Do I sound like a busybody? WIBU- is this just what children of secondary school age do (DD1 will be starting there in September)?
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Would I be unreasonable to contact this school about pupils' road safety?
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Moominlandmidwinter · 10/05/2013 19:19
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