School drop off C U next Tuesdays

This was going on years ago when I was taking my children to school. My eldest is 39. There have always been people who think the rules don't apply to them. We had a new drop off lane installed at our primary and the same stupid selfish woman arrived an hour early every day to park in it.

We unfortunately now live in a road parallel to one where a primary school is. They park on roundabouts, over drives, and just don't care. Just as long as they can get really close to the school.

I used to live near a school and it's the road-rageyness of it all that always astounded me. I'm sure it is very stressful doing the school run, particularly with traffic and shit weather, but the parents who would insist on getting as close to the school gates as possible in their car seemed constantly furious about everything and everyone.

I'm not saying walking your kids to school or taking public transport with them is less stressful than driving, but parents who walked their kids to school often looked a bit harassed, but they weren't effing and blinding and glaring at every passing person as if they wanted to murder them, lol. Seems to be something specific to driving kids to school that makes some parents turn into sweary raging monsters.

I imagine they're too busy at their important jobs requiring their dickish driving

Oh yes, because they don't have enough to do and can take action against these arrogant parents! A nice please please don't do this in an often unread newsletter maybe?
The people who do have authority are the police, parking wardens, maybe contact them. Photos of offending vehicles on the local social media?
Remember, these are the special parents to whom nothing applies, that's just for the peasants.

So they are here then but why are none of them posting to explain their reasoning? I wonder..

When my children were at primary school, the parking definitely got worse as the years went on. Plus, people dropping children off and then, instead of driving off and turning round in one of the many residential roads nearby, doing a three point turn in the very busy main road by reversing completely over the pavement with no regard for any children that might be walking/scooting along. Bearing in mind it's one of the largest primary schools in the country with over a thousand children all heading for it at the same time.

If I drive past at drop off or pick up now, you see people just stopped in the middle of the main road rather than drive a bit further to find a space – one man this morning decided to turn in the road and reverse into oncoming traffic just to 'park' next to the row of parked cars, blocking all the traffic trying to drive along.

Years ago, my DD was in year 7 and had an after school club so I went to pick her up and there was plenty of parking spaces as it was 4.30 but one car decided to park entirely on the pavement between the school gate and the neighbouring sports centre. Luckily, I'd already taken pictures, as when my daughter and her friend came out it decided to leave and started driving off, heading straight towards them. A girl from the school had come out and got into the car so I emailed the school and a week later got a reply saying they'd investigated, found the parent and spoken to them!

I walk past my local primary with my dogs. Same situation here. Entitled nut jobs trying to park, selfish behaviour, reversing seemingly without looking, general chaos. Doesn’t seem to matter what the school tries to do it’s been the same the whole time I’ve lived here (over 20 years), so different parents, same behaviour.

This is not new. See why many, many people would never buy a house within parking distance of a school.
Also this is not unique to schools. Happens at one of the places I have to work at. I have given up attempting to park in my private parking bay. No point what so ever. Every single day some entitled fucker parks there. Have to say workmen ( and it is always men) and those with a blue badge are the worse. Tell them to move and the blue badge brigade go ape shit.

I live opposite a primary school. The parents are so entitled and they drive dangerously. Its infuriating.

When o was a kid, school used to open its playground as a car park at pick up/drop off. Think schools should have to do that. I live near a school. Fed up of complete twats parking so emergency vehicles can’t get through, struggle to get on/off estate. Parking on pavements we have to pay to repair then using our paid for play park.

mine are in secondary now. Primary, carnage! Lorries mounting pavements and driving at kids because parents bad parking bloke the road, parents mounting pavements on corners. All four wheels on pavements.
just awful.
there was a carpark, a lollipop lady, zebra crossing. All great stuff to help you walk or park sensibly and walk. But no. Everyone clambering over the road immediately outside

You're not wrong. It's like the people that insist their darling little dogs couldn't possibly go without their daily walk when it's 30 degrees, yet when it's pissing it down the parks are empty.

Their little child darlings couldn't possibly get wet, else they'll turn into gremlins!

You can't argue with stupid though!

We have issues with the parents dropping off/picking up from a local school on our estate. I have noticed that the council has been sending a traffic warden over the last week who have been happily dishing out tickets (our road is either double yellow lines or a residents' permit zone).

The intention seems to be to dissuade the new parents from doing it at the start of term, so it doesn't go on all year.

The most annoying thing? There's a Park & Ride car park right next to our road, with dedicated drop off places for the school kids, but you have to do a loop of the car park to use it, so the parents choose the permit zone residential area instead!

Ask the school to ask council for a school street, but surely some these people could cycle/walk/public transport Does everyone really need to drive?

Not intentionally trying to play devil's advocate but there is a status element to this. You might notice the most frequent offenders are parents who are senior on the School Association etc. It's largely about being seen and being seen in a position of importance. These parents also often use it for professional networking. I did it myself for years.

Things will never change unfortunately. At my daughter’s school, the selfish and inconsiderate parking is astounding but it appears to be the same at every school. Pavement parking, parking across driveways and the zig zag lines, parking on corners and drop kerbs. We had a camera installed outside school to catch and fine people who park over the zig zags and zebra crossings and they ignore it, and the head teacher now has to keep the gates locked to stop people parking in the carpark despite her asking people not to as it was making it unsafe for the children. Yesterday I walked to school and spent so much time having to move bins as people had parked on the pavement and it was impossible to get the buggy past. These people don’t give a flying fuck, so I’m not really sure what the solution is!

YANBU! If your commute is so tight you need to screech into the cul-de-sac where our school is and park 3ft from the teacher parking barrier to make it, then pay for breakfast club like I do on my work days. I live in an average town and it's £1.60 with tax free childcare.

Around once a month a traffic officer turns up at our school but it doesn't deter.

Mad reading this, because every school in our London borough has a School Streets exemption zone where anyone is fined for driving down the road at drop off or pick up during term time (with the exception of residents who get issued a special permit). I am a massive fan, definitely petition your council to do the same! (council enforces them with cameras so guessing they can also be a moneymaker for them)

I'm wondering how they manage in other countries. In Germany apparently they have crocodiles of kids in brightly coloured hats being walked. And they have to be at school earlier too, so in the winter it's low light. They seem to manage.

People are just more selfish and more entitled and more lazy these days, not to mention more stupid. And the cars they are driving are much bigger. Plus there are more people driving their kids to school in other areas because "choice".

It’s rife at a lot of schools that are based in these types of places.

contact the council and ask for traffic wardens to be used in the area during drop off and pick up times. It works wonders.

contact the school and ask them what they’re going to do about it. Our local school put up posters, sent out letters to parents and had teachers out and about the front of the school during drop offs.

Our school provide permits for a car park about 3 minutes walk from the school, but people still park on the road outside, and it causes mayhem.
we have an infants, juniors, secondary school and a SEN school all on the same road, with a number of children from the SEN school being in receipt of transport, so there’s a huge amount of taxis and mini vans driving in and out of the school, so when you add parents from the other schools just stopping in the road it’s absolute carnage.

there are also houses and a few business on the road too.

I’m always so glad that we live 10 minutes walk, so we never drive it. Plenty of people who live in our area or closer to the school do still drive it though, it’s crazy.
i used to walk with my childminder friend on occasion, and you could always tell which of the children she was dropping off normally got driven in.

I don't understand it either, and it does seem to be recent. When I was at primary school in a rural area, where most children really did need to be driven (I have no idea why there wasn't a school bus) the pub down the road let parents use their carpark and everyone did.
Now at my kids school parking on the pavement is rare (probably because it's illegal in London), but over driveways, on single/double yellows and on the zig zag lines is common.
After I moved house I had to drive my son to his old school before we could get a place at this one. I got there early so I could park safely, but would frequently return to find I'd been blocked in. My particular favourite was someone who pulled up alongside my car, clearly after my parking space, and gave me a stream of abuse when I asked him to back up so I could get the baby in. He did eventually move the tiniest amount when he realised I wasn't going to struggle to get her (plus car seat) in from the other side, but kept honking me. I made a point of being as slow as possible.

You need enforcement. Invite police to the school to come hand out a few fines. They could do a talk to the kids to start with.

‘‘Twas ever thus. Back in the day it was so bad at the school where my sons went that special restrictions were imposed to stop cars parking right outside. This was a main but narrow road with buses trying to get past also. Did it stop them? Did it bollocks

The other day a "lad",I say lady loosely, mounted the curb was an inch away from hitting my husband. He looked at her. Then she started screaming qnd shouting about why you looking at me.

If your concerned then raise your concerns with the school.

It always could be worse. We have regular parent in parent violence in our school, on school premise, in front of the kids. I saw the first violent attack only 7 days into the school year.

I live near one primary school and take my DC to another primary school. Both schools have been there for over 40 years. At the local primary school, no one ever winges about parking, although it's the usual chaos. At my DC's primary school, the locals complain constantly. ALL. THE. FCUKING. TIME.

The irony is, many of the houses near my DC's school were built after the school. So they knew, when they bought, there was a school there.

I have little sympathy to be honest. Because all of the parking is legal. No double yellows. No driveway parking. Yes, lots of traffic, but that is to be expected for a school in an area with a very wide catchment.

I am very careful about times I travel to allow for the school parking near my home. I do appreciate it isn't always possible to not travel between 8 & 9 or 3 & 4, but there ARE alternative routes. Both of which I consider when going out at that time. It's just life.