to think people should be able to park more considerately outside the school

By 2shoesishappy on Thu 28-Jun-07 17:20:19
muppetgirl the school is 4 miles away. where we live even the nearest school is a couple of miles away. the buses are a nightmare so parents pick them up

duh read the thread. so i pick him up. he leaves home at 7 if he got the bus(overcrowded and full of yobs) he wouldn't get home untill 4.30 -5

I can't believe parents drive their kids to secondary school! Unless you live very far away, surely the kids can walk or get the bus like i did.

Why then do parents feel the need to park outside the school gates, arriving a good 20 minutes early to get 'their spot' on the pavement blocking anyone in a wheelchair or pushing a pram?

I feel like telling them to get off their lardy arses and walk; the temptation to 'catch' the car as I'm forced into the road with my children is one I fight every time I go past!

What really got my goat was when I was standing on the pavement, with my youngest in her pram and my son was picking flowers (well weeds), and some cretin hooted for us to get out the way so he could park where we were stood!

I live in a village with two primary schools, and the one nearest me takes its intake from quite a small area, certainly walking distance for most of the children who attend.

People who park on double yellows near school really drive me nuts - they're a safety thing FFS. Why do some people (and there must be a good percentage of Mumsnetters who do it) think they are more important than the safety of everyone else's kids?
Anyone feel brave enough to do something about it next term? We could knock up a little 'ticket' with some well-worded ranting and leave them on windscreens. I realise it wouldn't change anything but it would annoy them.

may be we should have the school buses like in america that would save the world too

we get this near me too

i live like right around the corner form the school and can't drive anyway so don;t have the prob of trying to park

but it really annoys me that so many people drive to school when i know that a lot of them live really near

a woman accross the road for me used to drive her kids and it must have taken her longer to get them both strapped in etc and then to find somewhere to park than would have to just have walked (we literally live 1 min away)

anyway the people that are driving are parking all the street near where i live and making a usually quiet road busy and quite dangerous at times

Wasn't meaning to upset anyone
I do know it's difficult especially in older schools where the just isnt the provision for parking.

ours is a Catholic primary too with a huge catchment - rules is rules though

I do realise this won;t help the side roads though

What we all need is those things that bus lanes have, you know the barriers that can sink into the road when needed. When the school bell sounds the barriers should rise from the ground thus preventing parking around yellow lines areas. Once the rush is over (around 20-30 mins?) they should sink back into the ground. Unless perople are physically prevented from parking i get the impression they won't stop especially if the parking wardens don;t issue tickets.

Recently double yellows have been painted around dd's school. This has simply moved the congestion to side roads. The school regularly sends notes home asking for consideration when parking. Traffic wardens turn up now and again but no tickets are issued - they just ask the offenders to moe on. At least 2 parents from dd's year are "borrowing" blue badges from Grandparents so they can park on the double yellows. It'll take a child to be knocked down before it's taken seriously. We have also lost our lolly pop man so cars regularly stop at or on the pelican crossing regardless of colour of the lights and children disembark.

Well it's the feeder primary for the secondary down the road where the parents still run their little darlings to school, aged 16/17/18 (and the council had to make one road one-way due to inconsiderate parking by those parents) so things can only get better .

That is the most ludicrus thing I have ever heard (not a slant on you bookworm!)
...the law doesn't apply to us beacuse we live far away?

I'm not surprised the residents are all hopping mad, surely you just park a little further away and walk the rest?

They're saying as the parents have to drive their children considerable distances to get them to school there, they need somewhere to park their cars to drop them off - faith schools don't have catchment areas in the same way as secular primaries do so they could be literally drawn from all over London. It's a pretty insubstantial argument IMHO as any school might claim parking was essential for parents but it won my local council over at the last Cabinet meeting. Don't think it's going to help integrating into society though....

I don't get the no catchment/faith school thing realted to parking. A law is a law surely?

Bet that drives all the residents mad...

There's a primary faith school near me which is apparently 'exempt' from parking regulations (in the eyes of the school) even on the zigzag lines outside the school gates since it has no catchment area per se - granted but a lot of the children live within about 800 metres of the school even so. Parking regulations are still parking regulations in my book.

Never had this trouble when it was council allotments .

my ds is going to a school 6-7 miles away as the previously mentioned local school (which has been open since last sept) has children throwing staplers at ta's, children refusing to leave the classroom when asked saying 'go on, make me' and other children claiming they 'know their rights....'

This is a primary school....

I feel i/we have no alternative but to pay for a better education.

(I realsie this isn't the subject of this thread sorry for the rant)

though saying that i taught in a ctholic school where there wasn't a catchment area and children came from everywhere. There was a school bus which one boy used to get home from his first day at school -he was 4!!- a year 4 girl, from my class, was asked to see him off the bus......

sublime to the ridiculous...

You must live in my road Muppetgirl . I've walked faster than it's taken my neighbours to drive to school, leaving at the same time. It's even quicker in the rain since you have to park so far from the school, it's not worth driving. I've not done that since my dd was in nursery and she leaves yr2 at the end of this term.

You re possibly very lucky then. Even if DD was going to our local state primary it would still be a good 20-25 minutes walk, and when I am on my way to work or back I would never be able to do the school run on foot.

ah, true. Our local school (primary) is literally 2 mins away and people from my street drive their children!?!

muppetgirl - depends how far away the school if from home surely? DD's secondary school will be about 4-5 miles from home so not walkable, so it will be bus (once she is old enough to do the journey alone) or pick up.

a secondary school??
Whatever happened to walking home?

Am i supposed to drive my darling son to school when he's 12/13? (he's 3 atm)

I lived around 10-15 min walk from my PRIMARY school and walked home from year 5 and my brothers lived 20 (not taking into account timn equated to 'lads' being 'lads') and were never driven to school, in fact, we only had 1 car until we moved out into the sticks.