What is it about driving near a primary school that turns people into complete assholes?

[EverybodyLangClegTonight]

I’m so fed up of the selfish dangerous driving every single day at pick up. I pick up from two schools. One has a car park, one doesn’t. The one with car park has people just stopping their cars where they like, sometimes in the middle of the entrance because they’ve spotted their child and just decided to wait there and block the entry and exit causing a pile up in both directions. People parking across two or even 4 spaces. People parking completely over the path the kids use to exit the school.

The school without car park is bedlam. Tiny residential street meaning traffic can only go one lane. Some drivers feel this is inconvenient and mount the pavement and give you death stares if you happen to be on the pavement where they want to mount it. I know of people who have actually been hit by Cars mounting the pavement to avoid the queue of traffic.

It’s disgusting. What is wrong with these people?

WIBU to start filming these drivers and sending it to the police? Would the police even be interested?

People would drive into the classroom if they could

^ this

The head of the pta once took great delight realising that she could park on the yellow zigzags.
The kids finished early on a Friday and the sign said no parking 3-4
The zigzags are there to keep your children safe

I worked at a school that was at the end of a long dead-end lane and at the top of a hill.

We did a whole school trip to the panto just before Christmas and got back at around 5.30 p.m. and with it being winter it was dark, cold and raining. The parents, in their rush to get as close to the school gates as possible, had completely blocked the lane so none of the coaches could see anywhere close and we had to park 3 streets away and walk back to school.

At that point, I'd only been there 8 weeks and as ppa cover teacher I didn't have my own class so didn't really know the parents. As a result, I couldn't be entirely sure I'd be sending the right children to the right adult and I didn't want to be held responsible for any mistakes. Furthermore, I was following directions from the HT that we'd still go with the original plan of handing children over to parents from their classroom door and didn't want to go against that.

I've never encountered such rudeness and nastiness ever: parents following me and shouting at me because I wouldn't hand their children over as they came up to me in the street. I felt like shouting back that it was a problem of their own making: if they'd shown some modicum of common sense and not blocked the lane in front of the school, we wouldn't have had to traipse through the streets in the cold, dark and rain.

I hated that job, mainly because of the parents and the spineless HT who wouldn't stand up to them and protect her staff from their abuse. I left before the year was out.

In a nutshell, a lot of people are pure LAZY arses who don't want to leave a bit earlier, park a bit further away and walk

They do leave earlier though. Like an hour/45 mins early to ensure they get the space so they dont have to walk nore than three feet to the gate.

I have never understood this. I park a 10 minute walk away and am constantly bemused at the combination of last minute arrivals screeching up the kerbs, and the people who arrive ridiculously early and sit in the car. I had to collect my DC from school early last week for a doctors appointment and couldn't believe it when a full 45 minutes before the end of school, I couldn't park anywhere near it. Loads of mums sitting in their cars and reading their phones , a lot with engines running due to the cold.

People really are just horribly lazy or entitled

Secondary as well. A load of parents park on the no parking road outside the school and block the buses. I have to drive every day as dc disabled.

Parking ops sent people out and the only thing that cleared it was tickets.

Now a handful of nans and grandads sit with their blue badge on display and wait for the not so little darlings to skip to the car 🙄

I agree that something strange happens to perfectly reasonable people when they are doing the school run. I live opposite a village school at my DP and I have to carefully time when we leave in the morning as it's almost impossible to get out of our driveways between about 8.40 and 9.15.

It's not just schools. It's lazy, entitled parents. My drive is opposite our village hall. Parents think nothing of abandoning their car blocking my drive whilst they go in and chat to the scout/guide leaders running sessions. They just don't care that I can't get my car in and out of my drive. Wouldn't be so bad, but there's plenty of on street parking around the village and even a big car park, but they're just too lazy to walk for 2 minutes.

Our school is up a single track lane, at the end of a no through road. It’s a village school and has been there 100’s of years. There are 4 spaces for staff to park and nothing else.

Parents park all the way up the lane, blocking residents driveways. Then they reverse all the way down again, hitting resident cars on the way. The whole thing is so pointless. At the bottom of the hill is a empty and free car park. No one wants to use it, it’s too far to walk. About a 4 min walk. They take 15 mins reversing and getting stressed and angry in the car instead.

The school have asked parents repeatedly no to park in the lane, but they don’t care. Some of them live a 5 min walk away and drive huge vehicles and at least 6 drive pick up trucks. It’s insane to watch.

I have never seen a school with a car park for parents to pick up/drop off. Granted I live in inner London so no space but even the town I grew up in schools don't have them.
I was at a shopping centre yesterday and parked on the end of the row so super easy to pull out and drive away but when Ieft all the spaces except the blue badge ones near the entrance were gone. The parking was atrocious and I have no idea how people could open their doors! The rest of the level was 3/4 empty but no people have to park near the door. Me, I choose the easiest option for getting out the car park as did a few others.

Driving up the pavement while i'm trying to walk on it. Parking on it so that pedestrians have to walk in the road.

Sitting with their fucking engines running while kids and babies in pushchairs are having to suck up the fumes as they pass by.

WANKERS! You're a wanker if you do this and everyone thinks it when they see you.

Mine is like this to. Pcso is around a lot more now as people park like utter divs. It's quite shocking though how many people live within walking distance and drive, we've recently moved so I have to drive now but when I had the option of walking I walked lots. Saved so much hassle and I miss it

Also I work at a college and I shit you not, lots of parents still insist on taking their kids to college and stopping wherever they like, parking In staff bays to...

@zasknbg completely agree with 'won't and don't'. New primary schools are springing up across my area all the time and they simply do not take account of actual human behaviour.

E.g. the catchment area is 0.5 miles so all children should be able to walk. Hence no parking necessary. What about the fact that most households need 2 working parents to afford to live so most parents drop off and drive straight to work or drive straight from work to pick up?? It's crazy not to look at how parents actually behave and design things based on reality.