Would you send your child to a school that is right next door to a waste processing site?

[fluffyanimal]

I've got a long time before I need to worry about this, as my eldest child is only in year 1 !

Anyway, our local secondary school is right next door to a waste processing site. It does skip hire and skip processing, as well as other stuff. It's a private site, not one of those local council recycling/waste dump places where you can take your own rubbish. Consequently, I don't know what kind of waste passes through there.

However, my DS does go for swimming lessons there, and sometimes when I've taken him, especially in the summer, the stench from the waste site is unbearable. It makes me retch as I open the car door. The smell seems to stick in my hair and clothes so that I feel like it's followed me home. I can't imagine how awful it must be for the poor students and teachers who have to endure it on a daily basis throughout the summer. And I also wonder if there are any health risks.

Would this put you off choosing it as your child's school, all other factors notwithstanding?

[dexter73]

Tbh it probably would a bit.

[fluffyanimal]

It's just that it's the one thing about the school which is least likely to change - I know standards can go up and down, infrastructure can be upgraded etc, but either the waste company would have to go out of business or the school would have to relocate.

If it turns out to be a really good school at the time my DS will start going, I just don't know if I could inflict it on him.