to think I should be able to park near the school?

I saw a post on here to other day about a parent citing needing to be at school an hour before the school day finishes to get a parking space as why they couldn’t get a job and needed to remain a SAHM.

Can’t you lay down a welcoming committee of nails for them? I mean we all spill things on our way back from the shops?

I live opposite a public car park. Anyone can use it for 2 hrs at anyone time in the week between 8am to 4pm.

I have to pay to park my car in it via the council. I live near 2 schools. The parents definitely arrive way before pick up time. Drop off, they're quicker. I have no allocated space in the car park. My hubby often can't park when he gets home at 3pm from work. We have no driveway and cannot have one made.

Grandparents probably. It's certainly the case where I live.

Could you not pull up on the school site?

Yup this starts soon after 2pm around here and the surrounding roads are a nightmare for more than an hour after that.

Lazy parents breed lazy kids, we always walked.

Yep, we live a couple of minutes walk from two schools. Parking starts about 2.30. Many dogs are waked 2.30-3.30! I campaigned for residents parking in my street because I kept getting blocked in in the mornings, and I have returned from work mid afternoon to find 2 x school pick up cars on my driveway!

Does the school in questions not have a visitors parking space or loading bay for quick pick ups?

I went out onto my empty drive at the end if school drop off, to find a driver about to do a 3 point turn. Only she stopped when she saw me, then she waved me on - which i thought was a bit odd, but i waited on the muddle if the drive.

then the penny dropped, she wanted to drive onto my drive to turn, as she probably does each morning when im not there!

But of course with me stood there i was in the way, and thus her waving for me to move first 😂

she then reversed back a bit and didnt turn but drove off

i then got on my bike and cycled away

I get why you wanted too but why 'should be able too'?

This isn't new. DD1 will be 40 next year and we had the same at her primary school. Always the same women there parked at school over an hour before pickup.

I live just off a main road opposite a senior school that kicks out at 3pm. Every day a woman parks up opposite my house at 2pm and has a massive car picnic while waiting for her kid.
I actually admire her for it.

Yes, I love to see the Dutch famiilies cycling to school each day. Individual bikes, trailers and those with a barrow front with two or three little ones in.

A huge attraction of living in The Netherlands. So much better for every ones health.

Our primary school is not within walking distance but I actively choose to park quite far away and walk because I think the exercise is important! And I’m a fat fat fatty size 20 pushing a double buggy with twin babies in so if I can do it…

Our catchment school is 10 miles away

Mine were in a primary school a 40 minutes walk away so I often drove. Parking was terrible. I was so pleased when I found an alleyway short cut to the back of the school. Only 6 minutes walk.
I would park outside the house of one of the mums who would set off in her car when I arrived! 6 minutes!

A lot of peoples school does require a drive, my nearest primary school was eight miles away when I was still in primary.

Extremely entitled and stupid comment.
My child goes to a special school (one of two in town) and it's a 5 mile journey. He could nto go to the same school his older sister so they ended up in different schools and we drive to both, one with me and one with my husband.
People may chose a faith school or school that is further away than a local school but may not afford to move. Some local schools can be dire, but you are clearly unaware of that. There is nothing wrong with driving to school and for many people it is a necessity, you have to be very daft not to realise. Maybe take a walk outside the end of your street :P May be quite an eye opening experience.

Our school would let u use the car park for that

For me walking actually could amount to this with my little guy as there are lots of parking restrictions so either you park close or really far. Id rather park early and go shopping for last minute things we need, pick kid and drive off quickly.

This is an odd comment. If you live rurally your nearest school is very likely to be far enough away to have to drive to or not safe to walk to. Or if you want to go to your nearest faith school or Welsh language school (in wales), it’s not going to be right on your doorstep in most cases.

in my daughters school we can walk as it happens now we’ve moved house but I have noticed parents parking for up to an hour to get the best spots! The thing is there are loads of spaces further up the road, literally an extra 0.2 of a mile or something so there’s no need at all to get there so early.

if our kids are sick, we’re allowed to park in staff car park to collect them. I think schools should allow this as it’s not like you’re staying there for hours and it’s an emergency.

Im a bit of a fattie but an active one.

Not as early as an hour but I aim to get there about 20 minutes before bell. But the reason is my child has a disability that means she can't manage a further walk after a day at school. There are no blue badge spaces and taking her wheelchair out would have other issues.

But surely cones won't apply to Moi, surely cones are for the little people!

I got a call from my daughter to pick grandson up as she'd had a work problem. As there were numerous end of financial years road works in a couple of villages I needed to go through I left very early, sods law the road works had finished and I arrived about 40 minutes, parked about 20 m back from a main road in the first unrestricted space, by 5 minutes before chucking out there were cars up to the main road on both sides and on the main road, it was an eye opener, not being a veteran of school runs.

My LA has School Streets outside many of the primary schools and unless you live in a house on the road, you cannot drive into the road during term time Mon to Fri between roughly 8.15 to 9.30am and 2.30pm to 4pm (actual hours vary) or you get a fine.