AIBU to continue turning in the school gate?

Please tell me this is a joke? Op do you realise how stupid you sound? I work in a school and the amount of near misses that are caused by pure stupidity is unreal. How about you park 5-10 minutes away from the school and walk to school or find somewhere safe to park.

Think you need to take her to Olivanders 🧙‍♀️

Drive around till you see a safe spot 👌

Have you mobility issues? No cars should be dropping off at the school. You park up nearby and walk.

If it is she’s an a*hole!

Private land I’m guessing.
Im on a farm and parents used to think they could drive on our property to turn around, just because it was there 🤣🤣
You simply can’t on PL

Lovely

I’m still confused about the businesses OP refers to. These seem to be beyond the gate where she normally turns around. Which doesn’t make much sense as then there would clearly be somewhere else to turn around (their car parks). Admittedly a pain for the businesses (maybe) but another option. Or did I imagine that post?

If it’s really problematic I’d say raise it with the school - there’s an issue, you’ve noticed the sign, the alternatives aren’t very safe, can they think of a better solution?

There’s literally 3 other roads on your diagram. I am willing to bet everything I own all of those roads have other roads off them.

So the school are trying to keep the children safe and have asked people not to use the entrance.
However, you don't care about the safety of children as you're too important to drive a little further or god forbid walk a little bit.
Entitled CF

Why do you have to turn round? Is the school on a dead end road? Or is it just that you don't want to have to wait in traffic at the main gate? I don't understand why you can't carry on and do a possibly slightly longer route home that's a loop.

Are there no side roads or parking spaces on the A road?

This has to be a wind up, no one can possibly be that arrogant and self centred. Maybe the op thought it was April Fools day.

A Parent used our barn for their kid to wee up against after picking them up from school. ( we’re not even that close to the school! )
Weve also put gates up to stop them driving completely around our property to turn around.
Parking and manoeuvring is crazy
Just today a car nearly went into a Grade 2 star historic building moving out of the way for another parent trying to crush by completely up on the pavement ( irrespective of pedestrians on it )

Whats wrong with walking!!!

Cycle
Walk the last 2miles

Whatever just don’t risk other peoples safety.

Perhaps take it up with the school if Mumsnetters here aren’t ticking any of your boxes.

This
Its just common sense OP

The safe alternative is for you to give up driving, since you obviously lack both confidence on the road and the desire to improve it.

Why do parents turn into woolly headed idiots on the school run? I live next to a school and see this sort of self entitled behaviour Every. Single. Day. We had to actually put a gate on our drive to prevent parents from reversing down it. They park on pavements. Block drives. Park on the yellow zig zags. Get into altercations with other drivers constantly. Its crazy.

No she said the wider road is the busy A road the narrow one is not to scale - the two miles is from where the arrow turns to the back gate.

Lots of people not reading that the OP does not need to park - she needs to turn around to go home.

Currently she turns left into the school road stops somewhere between the turn and the back gate to drop her daughter off - she then drives up to the back gate and turns the car around there to drive back down the road.

What she can do is keep on driving past the school and either make a big loop or use a side street further down past the school to turn around.

She doesn’t want to do this because the ONE time she ended up driving past the school front gate it was too busy with cars, buses and pedestrians.

A PP suggested the solution was to aim to arrive earlier than she does now to beat the gridlock caused by the buses and majority of kids arriving.

So there is only one road within 2 miles of this high school? This road goes past both the front and back gates. There is no other street, or cycle path or pedestrian access that your DD could use? I suggest you have a really close look on Google maps, satellite as well as map image. Maybe drive over at the weekend when it's quiet to check your route. Find somewhere to drop your DD off, on another street.

Sounds like a solution won’t be found until something terrible happens to a child, this is unbelievable, you could 3 point turn in someone’s drive, You need to change your way of thinking! the sign must be there for others but not you hmm

ok I’ll bite. What about the roads I’ve highlighted? I assume the wider road is the 2 mile absolutely no turning road but what about the other one?

and really 2 miles must take a few minutes at most to drive? I don’t see the problem really.

Ha. It's a hard life 🤣

I teach in a school, with parents like you- you are not liked.