AIBU to continue turning in the school gate?

OP, I would ask the school to provide a safe dropping off area. If there is literally no where within 2 miles to safely drop your child then I think the school need to make provisions.

@NortonBuns - ALL I am hearing from you is "My convenience matters far, far more than the safety of school children who are put at risk by me and other drivers turning at the back gate!"

Shameful.

I want to know the answer to this, too.

Are you serious? It's not the school's responsibility to hold shitty entitled parents' hands and help them adult.

You need to get over that. If you drive at all, you have to be prepared to do it in less than ideal conditions.

Is it the nearest school?

My children’s catchment school is 10 miles away

we aren’t entitled to free transport as “it’s too far away”

No shit Sherlock

All the other parents do this..
So if all the other parents drove on the footpath you would too?
Such a playground argument
As I posted yesterday, it's always the *holes doing the "it's only 2cmins" "it's only a little turn in the entrance" "it's only...."
But your "it's onlies" and "everyone else does" which makes one selfish, arrogant and entitled.

I assume the school is private or not the closest one to you as if it were you'd be entitled to free transport. www.gov.uk/free-school-transport#:~:text=Children of compulsory school age,child is 8 or over

Park further and walk? 🤨 Quite disgusting you're willing to comprise the children's safety due to your laziness. Are you ok for other parents to do the same in regards to your daughters safety?

No. You adhere to the sign. No turning.

You also have options.

Drop your dd further away from the school at an earlier time and she walks the rest of the way, she is in secondary school and should be more than capable of doing this.
Drive your daughter to a bus stop and she gets the school bus.
Drop her off much earlier before the buses arrive so that you can continue past the main gates and have been and gone before the chaos.

Cannot believe that someone has asked if they should continue doing something that a school has actively told parents to stop doing, for safety reasons. Honestly 🤦‍♀️

“Other parents do it so I’ll continue to do so”.

My daughter tells me other children wear make up to school and break rules, doesn’t mean I let her do the same. You’re teaching your child selfish behaviour.

Were you offered transport options to school?

So,there is another way out of this road beyond the front gate. You came this way when you went to town

Paraphrased......"I've been told what to do, but I think I know better and what I want is more important than the rest of the entire school's parents"

This ethos is lot of why Teachers are so cheesed off they're leaving the profession, and why the country is going downhill in general.

"I'm alright and fuck everyone else."

Why wouldn't you? Lots of reasons to encourage bus travel over driving.

• the buses go up to the school gate by the sound of it, and cars are being discouraged
• pollution
• taking the bus will likely be cheaper, save petrol
• social aspect - friends on the bus
• independence, responsibility
• quicker to drop at a bus stop than drive all the way to school and back (even to drive and drop), useful for someone WFH, getting home quicker!

Etc etc.

Ask the school what they suggest OP!

I went to school at the end of a mile long cul de sac and we didn't have this problem. I was dropped off at the edge of a nearby field and we all walked across the fields, only school staff and Y7 new starter parents drove up the cul de sac and then did 3pt turns to get out.

Have you asked the school what they suggest is the safest option?

While I understand how ridiculous it can get around schools, and have several roads I won’t let my DC walk across unaccompanied, the school has said you are not to use their entrance for drop offs/collections. Sorry, end of. You don’t get to decide that, actually, you will.
As annoying, disruptive and time consuming as it may be, you’ll have to get out of your car a bit away and then return to it and turn it back home (or try out other ways).

This diagram needs a banana for scale 😂

I think OP has said at least 10 times that there are no side roads.

Why would you pay for the bus and drive to a bus stop when you can drive to the school?

@NortonBuns I would talk to the school, and ask them what solution they suggest for drop off.

Is it a dead end? I just drive in a big circle it takes a few minutes or park on the road and walk the last bit. Clearly there is an issue or they wouldn’t have put a sign up. They’ll probably put out traffic cones if you persist.

Even if the school is not the nearest school and there is no free transport, there will be a bus that you can pay for, as other children are getting the bus.
Drop your DC at the bus stop. Buy a bus pass. Your child is not made of sugar.

Stop in a side road where you can turn safely.

Tbh it doesn't really matter what you think, they see the proprietors and if you carry on they will just ban you (or all cars) from the property. They did it at our school. It caused people to park over driveways. Residents started parking on the road the night before and blocking people in who parked over driveways and so the cars eventually started parking further afield.

You might win a few weeks of the battle but you won't win the war.

In that case you could probably turn nearer to their premises or using their driveways.