To think driveway blockers are unreasonably disrespectful… (school parking rant)

A friends school the head goes out and takes photos of inconsiderate Parker's and emails the pictures out weekly in a name and shame email.
He also will walk the streets and speak to parents about their parking
It's hilarious

Follow them home and park across their driveway on a regular basis. I am quite petty though.

It’s because they are inconsiderate c u n t s

So people who complain about people blocking others in…block others in…

Unreasonable. Poor headteacher after a long working day.

I don't think you're being at all unreasonable and of course you shouldn't have people parking over your crossover. But it's a problem at every school I've ever worked with - there are unfortunately many lazy, entitled parents everywhere. All schools can do is mention parking problems in their newsletters, and I know a couple of schools thst publish the number plates and description of card that residents report to them. One of the schools I work with organised a rota for staff to wait outside school at picking up time to tell parents that they couldn't park on the zig zags or across neighbours' drives. This was after a disabled resident was unable to get out of their drive on more than one occasion to get to a hospital appointment, but they had to stop thst after two members of staff were assaulted and quite serious threats were made to the headteacher when she intervened. I don't know what it's like in other areas, but in my borough schools are only entitled to one visit per term from a parking warden .

I can understand why residents get so angry and kudos to the resident who blocked the road!

School do acknowledge the issue but waiver any and all responsibility, stating it’s a public highway and they have no control over individuals (I appreciate this is factually correct, but I always think, if the other way around and visitors of mine were disrupting the school, I should and would be held responsible for their behaviour, seems as it’s due to myself that they would be there - if that makes sense?!)

Maybe you and some other residents should take it in turns to block the headteacher's car in the staff car park so they can't leave at the end of the day. They'd soon change their tune at that point.

Because those parents are assholes who don't care. Their children are similar.
When mine were at primary i wouldn't chat to those types.

Humans in volume, especially plus cars, equals mayhem. It's not just near schools. It's near any public place which attracts large volumes of cars at one time. People that live near a sports ground have a similar issue for hours at a time twice a week. People who live near a local beauty spot with a car park gets full on a sunny day. There are lots of ways in which we are inconvenienced by other humans, that's why some people choose to live up a mountain in Wales six miles from the nearest neighbour. Twats everywhere. It's not personal.

we’ve installed blinds that I shut at around school run times so I don’t see what’s going on

For your own sake and that of your DH and your relationship with him, I'd say that you would be best off trying to dial down the focus on this, and accept that yes they're in the wrong and you're in the right, but that you don't necessarily need to "do something" about it, if that is at all possible.

If you're trying to leave the house in your car at the (very predictable) time that you know it might be made difficult, then by all means head out and ask them to move. Otherwise, as a thought experiment, imagine you can't control other people's behaviour, only your own thoughts about it. See if that helps. It's that or remain in a permanent state of twice daily agitation, or move.

You need to become a nuisance to the school and Parish Council. Complain to them EVERY time it happens.

I'd inform the school about it as they will likely be able to identify the culprit. I'd be tempted to mention involving the police about the encounter if they used discrimatory language as could it be considered a hate crime? Our local school now actually has a closure on the street to stop parents parking directly outside school.

I work for the NHS and do home visits. Arranged a visit for 3pm. Not realising the house was opposite a school that finished at 3:15 and parking within a 5 minute walk would be impossible. I even tried to squeeze across the patient's drive as I knew they wouldn't need it while I was there obviously. But the idiot in the car behind me didn't get the hint and move back enough for me to squeeze in, even when I got out and surveyed my attempts in my uniform. He was parked literally across the road from a sign that said 'Parents - respect our neighbours and do not park on school street' 🙄

We moved when a new school was built near us.
School was not there when we first lived there.
Old neighbours are constantly complaining to us about people parking up blocking access and running their engines.
The school has a car park but does not let parents use it

Or to supervise it.

An idea thought up by someone who has no clue how schools work, obviously.

My DD's old primary school had problem parkers. It was a fun day when the traffic wardens came out and ticketed them although it didn't stop them and they continued to illegally park.

Strangely there were a group of parents who would get to school early just to nab the closest illegal spaces and then sit there for 10 mins. They could have parked safely and legally but that would mean an extra minute walk so not easy for them to do apparently. A previous poster is spot on about the gym wear mums that can't walk more than 30 seconds. Bonus points for being in a massive SUV they can't drive.

Schools are full of the goody goody types who don’t want the confrontation with arsy parents.

There was one village Head I knew though, she was very attractive and charming and ballsy. She got away with it. She would be out by the school gates greeting with a megawatt smile but she wouldn’t hesitate to pull up the entitled zig-zag parkers with a Headteachery ‘come on now Mr Wilson…’ and she’d shame all the dangerous and inconsiderate fuckwits. Pure class.

It's already been said there is a car park vv close

We had similar in my childhood home as we lived at the seaside. My dad would park as close as possible to the Problematic Car one side, then he would park my mums car really close the other side so the car literally couldn’t move. They would have to knock on random doors looking for whose cars they were to move.

Depends where you are I guess on how difficult it is to go elsewhere with your car. In our town we've got a plethora of resident parking schemes, one way systems, no stopping streets, pedestrian only streets, traffic " calming" ("infuriating" is more accurate) chicanes, bollards, humps, "school streets" that just shift school traffic to their neighbours, private parking companies with anpr technology and Kafkaesque fining practices all designed to make driving and parking as unpleasant and stressful as possible, even though most jobs are in the out of town council approved commercial business parks while public transport is shit, unreliable and expensive. Seems like no one wants anyone to go anywhere these days.

@LoveBluey am with you I will park further away and walk it's not that bloody difficult

I completely agree with you! I don't live near my kids school but the tests that park right at the gate on doubke yellow zig zag lines every day, stop in the middle of the road to let there kids out themselves. I want to murder them! lol your husband needs to grow a pair too

Yes we do this with our driveway. They come very quickly!

I walk my child to school but occasionally we get an email asking parents not to block driveways, so I'm guessing the neighbours periodically complain to the school and then we get these email reminders as a result.

I suppose the only other thing you could do is park on the road and block your own driveway so no one else can.

And no budget to build it.

I’ve also been in this position and it’s infuriating when you’re made late for work/appointments etc due to other peoples laziness and/or entitlement.
A friend of my DH used to have people doing this on a regular basis and he would let the air out of their tyres on more than one occasion and a few times (for repeat offenders) he actually bought himself a clamp and clamped their wheel. (Although they were parked on private land rather than a highway but still tempting!)

I agree with you. The entitlement from some parents is astounding and here it's got worse over the last few years. When ds1 was in YR I never saw any dodgy parking and now he's in Y5 I see it a lot. People parking across driveways, ON driveways, on corners, on pavements... the list goes on. And yes so many people have to park as close as possible and won't entertain the idea of parking further away even if it only takes them a minute extra.

Best advice I can give you is just to be so fucking weird that they avoid your space like the plague. Wait with sweets and offer them to the kids before and after school. Try engaging them in conversation, from the moment they get out of the car, coo over the baby if they have one in tow. Think of your most annoying work colleague and do that.