School drop off C U next Tuesdays

I think humour the first time is appropriate. Not the second.

This just popped up on my FB feed 😂😂 made me chuckle and think of this chat- if only hey?! 😂😂

Also, I have friends who live opposite my DC's old primary school.

I lost count the amount of times they arrived home to find some random parent parked ON THEIR DRIVE - who usually gave them a mouthful when they were asked to move their vehicle in order for them to park on their own property.

I'm sure that when a lot of people pick up their car keys, they leave their brains behind in their place. 🙄

Parents at my children's village school are just utterly awful. Pavement parking, parking on the school keep clear zig zags, parking right on corners, blocking gates etc... At events like sports day there is almost always at least one announcement asking cars that have blocked people's drives to move. There's a small village car park right by the school and parents park around the edge where there aren't actually spaces, which makes it difficult, sometimes impossible, for people to pull out of the legitimate parking spaces. There's plenty of other parking around the village green, and further out from the school but everyone seems to feel entitled to park right outside. It boils my piss on a daily basis. Bunch of entitlement CUNTS indeed. The other day one stupid cow drove up onto the pavement, on the school zigzags, directly towards me and my children. It didn't move over, so she had to stop and was clearly annoyed at me for not getting out of the way. It's astonishing how awful people can be.

We have to drive to school, unfortunately, but I just park as far away as necessary to park safely and considerately. It usually still takes less than a minute or two to get to the school gate.

Many years ago there was a story doing the rounds about a new College being proposed, the Collegiate University of North Tyneside. Apparently someone pointed it out and the name was changed!

Your describing about 90% of school in the country OP, people are ridiculous everywhere.
Not to mention there is always dog shit on the pavements leading up to the school...every school...EVERY TIME!

Our local Primary has been extended (think twice the size) but no additional parking or drop-off area. This means that you get the parents of 700 or so children parking on the roads by the school, reducing them to single lane tracks.

This is bad enough on the main road, which is, at least, pretty straight so you can see what's coming but until very recently, they would park on an adjoining hill that had a blind bend and was very narrow. Fortunately, most have been deterred by the introduction of yellow lines but there are still a few who chance their arm because (obviously) the rules don't apply to them!

I bet given the right circumstances 90% of those posting on here would do most of the cunt antics most are pointing out on here. A bit of rain, rushed for time, not feeling it today......most on here would let their morals go completely out of the window for 'just this once'.

Sorry, ive seen school run parent (both male & female) in action. They simply dont give a fuck.

This drives me mad! I walk the the school. Dd's school has both upper and lower school entrances on the one side of the street with no other entrance to the school so the whole path is covered in cars and parents to the point I have to cross the road just to get to the 2nd entrance. The other side of the street is also chock full of cars and the residents will reverse their cars back off the drive across the pavement to stop people parking, meaning I still have to walk on the road to get round. It's so bad that I will stand inside the school an extra 5-10 mins just so dd doesn't get run over

Don't know where you live but the school needs to address this issue with the cooperation of the local Police. It is a health and safety issue. The local bus service has had to change its route due to this kind of problem. Unfortunately it will only take someone to be injured to resolve this problem. Our local police force not only supervised the drop off issue but also rounded up the uninsured and those without a licence which worked like magic.

Oh, I so want these!

We used to have a drive through lane where you could go onto the school premises, pull up in a bay (bit like airport drop off) and kids get out and go. But people were driving dangerously through it, not letting kids cross...it ended up they just locked the gate, and we lost a very good way of stopping the parked cars on the street. The ignorant ones lost it for everyone

Complain hard enough, you might get a School Zone. Which is a whole new level of inconvenience for everyone, including you and your visitors.

At our primary school had to install a gate which is now locked during school entry and leaving time to prevent cars coming onto the school driveway.

The school has a long driveway with gates on side paths where the children come out after school.

On a dull rainy day, someone decided it would be a good idea to reverse their car down the driveway to their gate scattering the children coming out of school and the parents standing waiting to collect them because they didn't want their child to get wet!

They've also had to paint double yellow lines on the junction with the main road as people were parking on the corners around the junction making it impossible for cars leaving the side road to see if the main road was clear. Cars still parked on the double yellows until they had a series of afternoons with the Police hiding in the school and then going out to ticket everyone while they were standing on the drive waiting to collect their children.

There's a community centre a couple of mins walk away with a big car park. They're happy for people to use it for school drop off's and collections but people would rather park dangerously nearer to the school than walk for a couple of minutes.

Our school takes this v seriously. Head has emailed parents when they’ve received reports of dangerous parking and driving which is quite effective. Yes, not the head’s job but equally it would be so devastating if there was an accident. They are also vigilant at flagging ideas to the local authority about ideas to make things better eg more traffic warden presence, improving the visibility of zebra crossing etc

The parent th at does a twenty point turn in a road where its all double parking and others trying to get past so they don't have to drive around the block. That gets my blood racing

I agree OP, our local primary school sits in-between a preschool and a high school and the parking is off the scale.

We've had local councillors and PCSO monitoring on some days and moving people along but this doesn't help in the long term as they are not there everyday.

Many cars have mounted the paths to get round, nearly taking pedestrians out, myself included. I dread to think of the consequences of an emergency vehicle needing to come through.

Not sure what the solution is, I know local residents have been campaigning for resident parking zones around the school but nothing has come of that as yet.

YANBU. A 7 year old was hit outside a school near us by some twat who thought she could just reverse onto the pavement without looking (a wide pavement some idiots think they can park perpendicularly across leaving no room for wheelchairs or prams. Or people walking).

Don’t get me started. I live opposite a school and frequently have people parking across the dropped kerb to my drive and parking on the pavement to avoid the double yellows on the corner. They even park on the mini roundabout. The council created a footpath across the field to enable parents to park in the car park at the other side and walk across to avoid this. Parents won’t park there despite it only being a 1-2 min walk.
The poor lollipop man has cars parked all around him as he’s trying to help people cross.
I was once blocked in by an ambulance for 2 hours because they needed to attend a neighbour, and because of the way the parents had parked, they had no choice but to park across my drive. I had to get someone else to pick up my DD who had just moved to secondary and was too far for her to walk.
At one point we had PCSOs patrolling during drop off and pick up and it was fab.

We’re a street away from a secondary school and the driving/parking around our street/the estate at school pick up time is horrendous.

Slight change of subject but you see similar behaviour at the supermarket or the gym (which baffles me, you’re there to excercise so why not warm up with a 100m walk).

I live opposite a school, parents park across drives, on drives, on private land and all over the zig zag lines.They also stop in the middle of the road and let thier children out pavement and traffic side.They climb the pavement where the street narrow so they don't need to give away without any regard for children and parents trying go walk home.Its crazy dangerous and selfish

I love this. I’m now fantasising about leaving a note on buttery paper on the windscreen of all the arsehole pavement parkers round our way

But the big difference a no loading zone makes is that parking attendants can give tickets so it is worth their while attending.
There is some hope people may avoid parking there again if they get a fine. At our school it is the same serial offenders every day.

It really isn't their job. What do you think the average school secretary or teacher is going to achieve? In the face of an angry entitled parent ? .These are public roads. They can send out emails and notices but they have absolutely zero power to enforce anything at all. What is needed is a traffic warden or three, every single day. Preferably in pairs.