My DS17 is at sixth form and has started driving himself to school. He parks the car a 10 min walk from school ( parking nearer to school is impossible)
School know he drives because he is the first in his year to pass his test so other pupils talk.
School have said he has to register his car with the office in case of complaints about parking but he doesn't want to.
Reason why he doesn't want to :
Local residents around the area don't like cars being parked outside their houses and particularly get annoyed when they see a school pupil in uniform doing so. He is worried that even though he parks perfectly legally a resident will make up a complaint about him to try to put him off parking there.
He parks in a different road every day so as not to "annoy" the same people everyday but he has been verbally abused three times now and today someone left an anonymous note asking him to elsewhere.
These are just normal , fairly busy public roads on a huge 1930's housing estate , not quiet little cul de sacs. We live in a similar type of road near a station and have commuters parking outside every single day and I've never ever told anyone off for legally parking their car.
Anyway - DS registered my car with the school as he was driving that initially but he now has his own and doesn't want to register it - can the school insist as and when they realise that he is driving a different car ( they will find out ,due other pupils chatting about his "new" car )
My feeling is that it's nothing to do with them how he travels to school and he should not be made to give his registration number to the office.
Do other schools do this?