Parents' parking around schools is getting more dangerous

You can't be serious. Hike? Nobody is asking anyone to get the walking poles out and go over a mountain. I have commuted an hour on foot regularly in the past and was fine without a shower. I've also asked for a slight change to working hours to accommodate public transport schedules before being a parent and my boss didn't bat an eyelid.

It drives me crazy at our school which is in the city. We're a 25 min walk away and I know so many other parents who live a similar distance and they say things like "I had to double park" as though they literally had no choice but to make the road unsafe for every other person using it so their precious DC don't have to walk. Traffic near our school is so bad it's quicker to walk. For a brief spell I had a knee injury and had to drive (bus too expensive) and had to allow 30 mins to sit in traffic and then get parked in any of the surrounding streets. The school is always sending out comms and the head comes out and asks people to move their badly parked cars but it never changes.

Surely the parents who hit people when parking on the pavement should have been charged with dangerous driving? Because that's what it is.

I'm surprised councils don't home in more on this as an easy source of income. Cameras, fines, safer roads/pavements and money for the council seems like a win.

Those people baffle me and piss me off at the same time! If you have the time to get their so early, why can't you walk?! I remember dropping dd at breakfast club at 8am and seeing a woman parked in the very first parking space. She was sitting looking at her phone while her kids jumped around the back. They would have had to sit there for half an hour before the gates opened.
I used to live beside a primary school and now live beside my dc's secondary school. I also used to work part time at a primary school and couldn't believe how many of my pupils' parents chose to drive them instead of walking. The growth in traffic has been crazy over the last ten or so years. It is making it unsafe for pedestrians, particularly the children walking to school, which makes some parents decide to drive the children to school instead. Walking to school is far healthier for children and should be encouraged.

You could have looked at a different school or make your younger kids go in a pushchair or put them on reins. There are other choices. So long as you park legally and with consideration though it's fine. On yellow lines, pavements or corners, or across driveways, no.

A school in our built up area has a "walk the last 5 minutes" initiative which means kids being dropped off 5 minutes walking distance from the school. Of course if parents have time and it's needed they can walk the 5 minutes with the children but many walk by themselves/with siblings. It has all but solved the traffic problems and congestion and the neighbors surrounding the school are no longer livid.

Well parents at a local school currently have to walk due to roadworks. Amazingly everyone seems to be coping.

It's actually blissful.

There's a few with exclusion zones in our area now. They work.

Never underestimate the selfishness of parents and parking near schools.
God forbid their darlings might have to walk 50 metres up the road and to hell with the wheelchair users and those using mobility walking aids and pushchairs, I'll partially park on the pavement if I want

My child's school is in a city centre and so there is no free parking or
Housing estates nearby. Also can't afford to pay for parking twice a day for 5 days per week to pick her up. On top of this I have two other very young children who won't go into a pram and like to try and run so I park wherever I can close to the school because I've no choice and have to stay on my car until the last second

I see families driving to school all the time that I know live minutes away from the school, could easily walk in and don’t have a job to go on to. It’s pure laziness.

Sex offenders register?

No. Have a seperate list by all means. That flags when you speak employment. Make it legal to discriminate against them when employing.

Many years ago there were a lot of issues caused by parking at the scout hus at the back of my parents house.

It cvame back to bite the scouts however as they were refused planning permission to extend the building and rent it out for other things

Have you spoken to the school? Get them to have a parents evening and show them horrific videos of accidents caused by shitty parking

Its the sort of thing that the driver should end up on the motoring equivalent of the kiddy fiddlers register for, perhaps even on the kiddy fiddlers register because that is what they are, a threat to children

If you are dropping off your children and going on to work, it’s not unreasonable to use the car. What is unreasonable is to sit in the car with the engine running for half an hour. If you have that time, in primary school at least, you don’t have to rush to or from work.

Err, not any more! Language has changed (for the better). "They" as a singular gender-neutral pronoun wouldn't have been acceptable fifty years ago, but it's common currency now, and more equitable.

I live near a high school and this drives me mad. Parents blocking my drive, engines running for extended periods, mounting pavements etc. I used to walk the dog around 8am - no more as it’s too stressful. I feel sorry for the kids walking to school who are put at risk by this pathetic behaviour from their classmates parents. Council should fine the bloody lot of them!

After many years of school runs I don't think there is a solution. For some reason a lot of parents will always park and drive like idiots around schools.
My DCs Primary had a park and stride which was around 3 minutes walk up a safe path from a large carpark and STILL loads of parents tried to park right outside the school gates and surrounding streets despite it taking longer to drop off. Parents would park badly in the carpark we were allowed to use, all piling up one end rather than walk 20/30 metres more and there was some very bad driving in the carpark until the arrangement was withdrawn by the owners.
After much negotiation by The Head and The Council we were allowed to use it again but people went back to driving too quickly in it and parking badly despite it being huge.
No idea why usually resonable people seem to act like idiots at school run time

Could the school come to an arrangement with the supermarket for school drop off times? Our local school as this arrangement for a park and stride with a nearby leisure centre and I know of another that has one with a nearby pub. Might be worth exploring?

It's a really sad state of affairs.

Kids at our local school have even made signs/posters asking people not to park and not to let their engines run/idle when waiting.

And, guess what, there is still a hard core of ignorant selfish parents who park in 'no parking' areas with engines idling.

Here in London we have school streets restricting access to all but immediate residents for up to an hour before and after school. Sounds like this needs to be rolled out elsewhere.

A great illustrator of the fact that while having children does make you less selfish as regards your own children, it makes you more selfish towards other people's children.

Cycling is very quick for those who 'dont have time to waste'

Half a mile each way for a healthy adult wouldn’t be a 30 minute walk, certainly not a 30 minute hike.

If time is so tight you can’t park 5/10 minutes away and walk in then maybe you need to look at how you’re doing your mornings. In a lot of cases you would spend longer faffing trying to find the elusive parking space at the school door anyway!

unless parent or child is disabled when plans need to be put in place then in the vast majority of cases parking a bit further out shouldn’t be an issue, it would make it much safer for those who can walk to be able to as well.

Surely at high school age children are getting themselves to and from school.

It is bad, walking should be the default option to and from school. That said, if walking isn't an option what are parents supposed to do. The council should have given this some thought.

Perfectly correct grammar for about 80 years ago. Did feminism pass you by?