School drop off C U next Tuesdays

I live less than 100 steps from local primary school. The parents are a nightmare-so many live within 5-10 minute walk yet they insist on driving round (often speeding) and park as close to the school gates as possible. I worry about the older kids being hit by one of their cars constantly too. The sit blasting music, have their engines on and part across gateways. School constantly remind parents but they just ignore.

We’ve had a child actually knocked over outside the school as he was crossing the road by a guy going at speed.
thankfully he survived but some people still drive like lunatics at speed right by the school.

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The school should be communicating and checking that considerate parking is maintained. This is actually most annoying for people who live near the school and are inconvenienced each day. I’d take down the number plates and pass to the school. It’s their job to make sure parents are parking correctly and so that children aren’t endangered. Get down to the school office to have a word.

I like beside two schools. The most considerate and careful drivers are the 17 year old students.

i once saw a dad mount the pavement to avoid a queue of traffic! Outside his child’s primary school!

I get it’s the only action most 4X4s get - but bloody hell the driving is insane!

thankfully I leave for work at 7:30am and get home at 7pm so I only get to witness the Mathew when I am off work!

I live very near a school, and unfortunately it’s as you describe. The thing is, it’s usually the big shiny new cars where the parents act like idiots. The ones driving the little 10 year old ford fiestas seem to be the more sensible and respectful. I had a woman parking across my drive every time there was a drop of rain last term. She lives about five minutes down the road, so generally walks, but drives up on rainy days. I told her politely at first not to park across my drive. I then had to be firm and told her not to block me in even if she was ‘only going to be five minutes hun’. But no joy - just eye rolling and blanking me. So the first day this term I stuck a piece of paper on her windscreen with butter telling her not to park across my driveway. She was stood there when back at the car for twenty minutes trying to clear the butter from her windscreen, because of course butter is a bugger to get off glass without smearing. It worked though. She’s someone else’s problem now.

I know someone who lives in the same street our school is on who drives her child to school every day and they are always late too
We manage to walk 40 mins to get to school on time in 5 years never been late once and we leave the house before 8am
I dont understand how people can be so unorganised

We have a no loading/no stopping zone outside our school but does anyone pay attention . No
They all stop there to chuck their kids out before driving off
Pure laziness

Agreed, we live a 40 min walk (each way) to school
I dont drive and we walk in all weathers every single day of the school year
I cant count the number of times we have almost been run over by parents swinging to mount the pavement to park, not paying a bit of attention to the people who are walking to school
Only yesterday a parent who actually lives in the street the school is on, swings his car right i front of where we are walking on the pavement to reverse into his drive
These parents are selfish ,lazy and downright reckless
My child is year 5 so now allowed to walk into and out of school alone and even walk home alone if i let her.
No bloody way

Get the school to get the council parking warden out

I’ve been on maternity leave for most of DD’s first year in reception and now Y1 so have been able to walk daily. I reported the ridiculously dangerous driving to the head a few months ago which did result in a school wide email. Our school has a couple of car parks and a pub we can use but it doesn’t help it’s up a big hill no one can be arsed to walk up, with tiny (and at some points nonexistent) pavements with few dropped curbs. I’ve knocked on people’s windows before to ask them to move but many times I’ve had to get the pram in the road. For our school what’s worse is the number of people dropping kids off and picking them up with no car seats and in many cases totally unrestrained. Again reported a couple of grandparents who ran a red light with three or four kids in the back literally hanging out the windows, no way could they have had any sort of seatbelts on, and sadly it’s not unusual to see that on the commute. The biggest school in our area (90 kids per year) has very little parking but is opposite a petrol station and people park at the petrol pumps and abandon their cars at drop off/pick up - the entitlement! 😂

Always the cunts in those discovery monstrosities. They probably live in a 2 up 2 down on a housing estate - god knows why they need something that size.

You are definitely not being unreasonable- we live opposite a school and it’s utter bloody carnage. There is playing of parking within a couple of minutes walk but people are lazy fucks. Constantly block us in and something driving up onto the kerb at speed where kids are walking . I had a go at a guy yesterday as he literally nearly ran into a kid and he genuinely looked baffled as to why ramming up on a kerb at a ZEBRA CROSSING was unreasonable. The only kids important in the world are theirs - it’s a worrying state of affairs for the world.

I agree. A lot of people just don't see them selves as the problem

I haven't rtft but as someone who cycles with my ds, I agree that there are a lot of inconsiderate arseholes driving their children to school. It can be really scary!

Our local council has banned driving in the primary school street at drop off and collection times except for those living there

I would not use the words the OP did.

Unfit parents who endanger the lives of their children and others, who should be banned from driving for a very long time, if allowed to drive again at all. It is not the fault of the school.

That is the point of them

You've parked like a cu next tuesday

Love this, if they’re big stickers I’d stick it right on the windscreen so they have to mess about peeling it off

Of course not 🙄

What on earth is a CU next Tuesday? Weird.

Our school has a specific drop-off car park, better than most schools, but people will block people in, drive the wrong way round it, anything to make it quicker for themselves. I stop to let children cross at the islands nearby, but will get beeped by other parents for stopping (exactly the kind of drivers I'm trying to stop them getting hit by - it baffles me that they care for their own children but not for the safety of other children)

I have special “You’ve parked like a cunt” stickers for this type of behaviour and enjoy slapping them on a side window 🤣 Bought them online and they were worth every penny! It’s incredible how entitled and lazy some people actually are!

Sadly so true