AIBU to continue turning in the school gate?

typo "Except for Ms entitled Nortonbuns"

Clearly there just wasn't enough room on the sign to include Ms entitled Nortonbuns but I'm sure that's what they intended.

Drive near any school at the start or end of the day and you will easily find the people who don’t think the rules apply to them!

What amazes me is that there are well over 100 people here who think like the OP does.

That sign is actually a declaration of war on you.

What you need to do is to rip it down, go onto the school premises with it, and smash it through a closed office window.

Once you do that, they will start to treat you the way you deserve.

A Welsh Valley town?

With a very narrow valley!

The OP reeks of entitled motornotrmativity

There may be side roads, but none that are suitable for the OP’s precious car and Very Important Commute, @AnnaQuayInTheUk.

This is what I don’t get.

No state secondary schools are literally in the middle of nowhere they are in villages at least. If it’s private they would have something sorted for drop offs and wouldn’t put arsey notes out.

I live in a rural area drive dd2 7 miles to a comp in a big village. I drop her the other side of the main road in a housing estate. Because it’s in a village. I don’t buy it at all. There are parents, kids, busses and cars literally scrumming by the main entrance though. Arguably it’s faster for me to go in that side but it’s really frightening, I stick to mainstream.

Is there anyone on this thread who is aware of anywhere in the UK that has a busy town/suburb with shops, businesses and houses but NO side roads within 2 miles?

I'll wait.....

Most people would baulk at adding 40 minutes to their commute nowadays if there are alternatives, because time is tight. It probably means everyone getting up and leaving at least half an hour earlier and in any case may not be doable if they have a lot of stuff to cart about.

I'm not suggesting OP should keep turning in the back entrance. I'm saying that the "just stop in a side street" solution is not an alternative that virtually anyone on here would actually do in this scenario.

But two miles isn’t that far for a secondary school age child to to walk

Was that side road a 2 mile walk from the school?

Once my youngest reached 11 I parked on a side road near school and they walked to & from there.

Basically I went up one road, turned right into the side road and turned right again at the end of it which meant I was facing home again

Simples

Same here!! The school with the drop off had teachers who get up the children out of the cars and supervise them walking in through the Near gate, parents didn't need to get out and you can see your child go safely through the gate onto the school grounds.

Another school did a bit of work on their grounds to create a kind of an in/out situation and as this was a senior school, the children could just get out the car and go in themselves. Most parents and children were very good at doing it quickly of course she got the odd parent that had to say goodbye to Rudolph and Jasmine and get their bags out the boot for them🙄🙄 but it really wasn't an issue compared to the nightmare it had been beforehand.

Where that school was was in the city and all of the side roads were 'no stopping' and the school only had about 10 visitor car park spaces. Given we lived 14 miles from the school, walking wasn't an option. Nor was parking a mile from the school, because as I say it was in the city.

I disagree that it's not a school issue.

That's incredibly sad, but totally irrelevant to this situation. These are senior school children with a fenced off walkway for them to walk along.

there isn't anywhere to park a few hundred yards away. 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

read this and have a think about how you'd feel if there was a child you didn't see.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13167725/Father-reversed-killed-19-month-old-daughter-wandered-driveway-blind-spot.html

Maybe at that school, but I use two schools regularly and we don't have those problems so I don't recognise your assessment. Generally if there are traffic problems outside a school then more options are needed, not less. I appreciate that ideally parents will all walk their children to school, but in reality most have to be at work or at another school for siblings and everything is a rush.

Two of my DC are at a school with a drop off point, and it works really well though. The other school has parking and I've never seen any parking rage there.

Our primary school used to have a drop off zone and the parents parked in it and left their cars while they walked the kids into the classroom so they closed it. Parents could park in the car park but there were parking rage incidents so they closed it. Parents then clogged up the road directly opposite including parking on bends and the mini roundabout so the council had to double yellow it.

In the main parents dropping at school are arseholes

Oh but this school is. There is one road to it then jungle all around. Lions, stomping elephants, hungry tigers all around. Can't possibly park in the jungle a few yards away and walk. Would risk being eaten or trampled

There is nowhere to park a few hundred yards away.
Oh there I thought there was nowhere to park for a few hundred miles.
Op and their DC can walk a few hundred yards surely?
Last year we had two incidences where a child was hit, the other it was a child and a gran. School safety at drop off and pick up needs to be taken seriously. If it means parking a few hundred yards away then so be it. It doesn't matter how many other dkh parents are turning at the gates

YANBU OP. YABADh

You are definitely not being unreasonable. You are being a dickhead

This has gone on far too long. I think it's just a wind up

What's been happening all last week OP?
You say there is a stream of parents all doing the same as you.
Has anyone spoken to the school?

I still want to know where this place is that has houses, businesses and a school for 2 miles with no side roads or places to turn round.