AIBU to continue turning in the school gate?

It's been put there because of you OP.

You park a bit from the school and walk up, it's not a big deal.

So you have no legs to park a bit further away &
walk them?

Have you thought about asking the school?

Well, you can, you just don't want to because it inconveniences you too much.

Leave earlier so it's not so busy and you get home in time to start work.

If it's high school and you live rurally then surely your child can catch the bus. If it's less than 2 miles they should be walking but I appreciate not all country lanes are safe for this so just drive them to the nearest pavement to your home and then let them walk.

O M G and this is why my children and I nearly got run over outside the school gates - ignorant, entitled, selfish parents that won’t get to earlier and walk a few metres.

Our school have just had to put signs up because parents keep nearly running over other people’s children.

The outrage from the parents who couldn’t possibly drop off further up the road or park a street away and walk together is huge. At least ours is a primary school can’t imagine the laughs if we heard parents of 14/15/16 year olds complaining because they must drive to the actual school not a street away.

So do you think the school have put the sign up out of spite? If so contact them and ask them about it. Seems far more likely you just don’t want to acknowledge any risk though as it’s inconvenient for you.

Are you saying that every single parent who drives drops them off and turns at this point. If so, it would be chaos.
You need to look and find another solution. Look at a map and see if there is somewhere else to drop off. I drop DD off by a bridge and she crosses a motorway to get to hers. It’s actually a fairly short walk and keeps me away from school most of the time.

Has she got a friend who walks from home, and you could drop off there instead?

I refuse to believe there are people like this in the world

someone who would go against the rules for the SAFETY of their own children!

Your child has a thing called legs…park further away from school and ask child to engage legs and walk the rest of the way to school.

Guessing you’re one of the many selfish parents like at my child’s school who for some reason must park as close as possible, meaning they block all the roads and pavements and make it dangerous for everyone else’s kids.

I kind of doubt your ability to judge what’s safe tbh.

Park somewhere else and walk; to keep the children safe.
Wait a while longer in your car; to keep the children safe.
Drive a little further along; to keep the children safe.

The sign says don’t do it so don’t, what kind of horrible thing are you? Shouldn’t have a bloody license

It's banned at my daughter's school as it's unsafe. Yabvvvvvvvu and I can't believe it. A child was knocked down a year ago due to a nasty human like you. Please don't do it. How you feel if you hurt a child. The signs there very a reason. Sorry so angry as I and tbh my daughter and all the other children and parents saw the accident and that poor mum and boy. He is ok and back at school two days later but I never forget the screams.

Might it not be an idea to look for a solution which avoids you being part of the queue?

I cannot believe there is nowhere a short/longer distance from
the school where you can safely park, drop and turn.

I live near a secondary school and it astounds me if ever I am about at 2.45pm how many parents have 30 mins to spare to sit in their cars on the absolute nearest road, parked illegally on the pavement, bc their 11yo+ DC cannot walk for 5-10 mins. There are many safer places they could park.

Yes, continue to do it. Be that parent who thinks the whole world revolves around them and that rules/reasonable requests don't apply to them. 🙄

Here is an idea. Maybe you should walk or move to a closer school?

I have a bit of sympathy with OP. Our secondary school has a drop off point for parents because there's no parking nearby. It's easy and it works.

The primary we use has enough parking close by which is safe, but they keep threatening to close off the entrance to the estate where everyone parks, apparently as a safety measure. That just pushes the traffic up to the busy main road where people will end up parking both sides making that road a single lane through. Whenever that road is blocked there is gridlock as it's the main route to two of the town's three high schools.

Before everyone says walk, it's a Welsh medium school with a massive catchment area, loads of parents need to drop off on the way to work.

How old is your DC @NortonBuns ? Apols if I have missed this info. Can they not walk the two miles from the top of the road?

when my children were little, I often used to wonder if some parents found it a shock to discover (on parents evening and at school summer fetes etc) that there were in fact other children at their kid's school. Imagine the horror of discovering your kid is in a class with 30-odd other kids!

Diagram needed. I'm just imagining this one, solitary 2 mile long road, with absolutely no other roads coming off it and a school sitting at the end of it. I've never seen anything like that in real life.

I live in a situation where parents do need to drive their older children and drop them off. We are semi-rural and there is no other transit. The school worked with the police to decide on a car travel route near the school and a drop off point.

We all had to use it even if it wasn’t the most convenient. it was great though because the children were safe at drop off and it ran very efficiently. It also minimized interference with non-school traffic. I learned to approach the school from a slightly different direction that wasn’t the shortest, but made it easier for me to get into the queue of parents dropping off their young secondary students.

any chance of the school and the community working together to come up with a better system?

I would ask the school what their solution is as opposed to Mumsnet!

Oh wow. You're serious! I've heard it all now.

Then end of the 2 miles away road is a very busy crossroad where it would not be safe to stop.

You can drop her off outside school though can't you? (or just up the road slightly) you just can't turn around there? So you could proceed to the crossroad and make your way home from there?

I can’t carry on to do a loop as I would then hit the full front of school traffic and children walking and cycling to school.

This seems more like you 'won't' rather than you 'can't'?