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Have zero sympathy for parents for parents being fined for breaking parking rules outside schools

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fld · 29/11/2025 16:43

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/parents-slam-school-parking-madness-10674874?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop

Parents are moaning about CoL with fines parking on double yellow, zig zags etc.

One stupid quote from a parent
"I don’t understand why the fines are being handed out anyway. For those who park up more than 30 minutes at a time, fair enough they should be fined but for those who park for 10 minutes there needs to be more understanding."
"Times are hard as it is anyway and adding that extra expense of the ticket, on top of living costs rising is just unnecessary. Its putting more pressure on parents. The money I spent on that fine could be spent on putting a smile on my child’s face."

Well if you read the Highway Code, leave a few minutes earlier and get your DC to walk either from home or park down a side street (not on parking restricted lines/bays) about 5 min walk from the school, you won't risk getting a fine.

No sympathy from me.

I believe the removing the boundaries for parents to apply for their DC to attend schools outside catchment areas isn't doing this any favours. In the old days when I was at school, if you wanted your DC to attend a certain school, you moved home.

Also what are the chances are these parents are driving newish (less than 3 years old) cars that cost them £50k?

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ProfessionalTeaDrinker · 29/11/2025 17:00

sheepisheep · 29/11/2025 16:55

I always wonder what would happen if it were men who did the majority of school runs. Would they be expected to park "a few" streets away and walk? Or would we have by now realised the issue staring us in the face that kids need to get to school conveniently and safely. We can provide parking for work places but there is never enough safe, legal parking near schools. But no, let's keep demonising parents (mostly mothers) who are juggling multiple kids, often under 5's, who are forced to park as safely as possible and shepherd kids in and out of the educational institutions they are legally obliged to go to.

Don't worry, plenty of fathers do the school run round here and guess what......loads of them park like entitled prats as well! There is no excuse for parking dangerously, yet so many seem to think the rules don't apply to them at school run times. It's disgusting.

Sirzy · 29/11/2025 17:00

Save petrol money and walk! (I know many can’t but for many it is more than feasible as is parking further away)

SOME parents seem to lose any last common sense they have when it comes to parking at school. I do sometimes wonder if they think their child will melt if they get a bit wet.

TheNightingalesStarling · 29/11/2025 16:59

If less parents drove and parked like that's around schools, it would be safer for children to walk or cycle to school alone, so therefore less parents needed on the school run.

Forwardthinkingcrayfish · 29/11/2025 16:57

sheepisheep · 29/11/2025 16:55

I always wonder what would happen if it were men who did the majority of school runs. Would they be expected to park "a few" streets away and walk? Or would we have by now realised the issue staring us in the face that kids need to get to school conveniently and safely. We can provide parking for work places but there is never enough safe, legal parking near schools. But no, let's keep demonising parents (mostly mothers) who are juggling multiple kids, often under 5's, who are forced to park as safely as possible and shepherd kids in and out of the educational institutions they are legally obliged to go to.

Sorry but there is absolutely no excuse for bad parking and risking the lives of children. Leave earlier. Park multiple streets away and walk if required. If the generation before us and the generation before that could do it then there is absolutely no reason why our generation can’t.

sheepisheep · 29/11/2025 16:55

I always wonder what would happen if it were men who did the majority of school runs. Would they be expected to park "a few" streets away and walk? Or would we have by now realised the issue staring us in the face that kids need to get to school conveniently and safely. We can provide parking for work places but there is never enough safe, legal parking near schools. But no, let's keep demonising parents (mostly mothers) who are juggling multiple kids, often under 5's, who are forced to park as safely as possible and shepherd kids in and out of the educational institutions they are legally obliged to go to.

Kleeneze · 29/11/2025 16:54

No sympathy whatsoever. I actively applaud the traffic warden handing out tickets outside my kids schools to the twats parking on the zig zags.

TheNightingalesStarling · 29/11/2025 16:52

Parents lose their minds outside schools. The double yellows, zig zags etc are there to keep the children, including their children, safe.