People who are late for school every day or almost every day.

[MrsJAlfredPrufrock]

Why don't you just get up 15 mins earlier?

There is a golden time where all the goody two shoes extra early people have left and all the normal on-time are going home that there is space to park right outside school. The gate is open for 10 minutes - it's that golden last 2 minutes where you surf the limits of the late book that gets you parked right outside... the odds of success are low - too early and you have to park miles away, too late and you're in the book - but the reward is massive

YANBU

It doesn't bother me, but I feel sorry for the children who have to run to school every day. :-(
Although it could be their fault, of course. ;-)

I get up just before 7 and DS between 7:10 and 7:20 to be in school at 8 and it's less than 5 min by car.

Badly organised parenting. very rude

Schools need to start issuing fines for persistent lateness

They have the power to do this but rarely use it however, I think it would really make a difference.

There is a young boy in my sons school who doenst make it till 9.45-10am every morning.

Maybe its because he is still out up/playing at 11pm????

Very sad.

I do it deliberately, to avoid people like the OP

Force - do you have school-age children?

"pester power" works wonders, IME. Even DD, who couldn't give two hoots what I think/say/do, cares deeply about what her teacher thinks, and cherishes her normal place at the top of the name board (they write their names on the board as they arrive). In fact, pester power can be over-used, although I have observed that individual class teachers dial it down significantly when they have someone in the class with genuine reasons for being late, and at least (independent school) they don't do "100% attendance" certificates.

Interesting point about 'priority' - there are a whole series of priorities in the morning when you have different dc with different needs going to different schools and you have to get yourself to wrok too! Which is the top priority?

Getting dd to secondary school with homeowrk, 2 sets of pe kit, 3 notes/cheques etc. if it is tipping with rain (extreme example), making sure ds (2 minutes away primary) has all his stuff and gets there on time, or making sure I have everything I need for my day at work so I can go straight from school on my bike...oh yes all 3 of these things MUST be achieved or someone will be late or missing something important.

I am not defending habitual lateness by those who don't care, by the way, just asking people to consider what other factors there are and different people find it easier to plan, prioritise and organise.

"Why do you need to write in a book a reason for being late? You are just late, why does the school need to know? Rather judgey IMO!"

"have you tried to find out if there are problems and if you can get these people help or assistance?"

That's why the school needs to know!

There's a teacher at my DCs school who I see running from the car park to the front door of the school every morning along with her own DCs, at bang on 9am. Now that would annoy me if she was my DCs teacher but thankfully she's not (this year).

"Why do you need to write in a book a reason for being late? You are just late, why does the school need to know? Rather judgey IMO!"

Errr because if you don't Home Ed your kids, then they have to attend school by law.

If the school wanted to be 'judgey' they could ask the LA to issue a fine after a maximum of just 7 lates per half term.

doin what is your DH's excuse for doing fuck all of a morning?

I work til 2am. DH has to go out at 0730 am, so can't help me get them ready, but he'll make the lunch (although I have switched to school dinners on the days after I work a night) and put the school uniform on the rail in DS's bedroom. This REALLY helps as DS just gets up and puts him own clothes on.

Also no telly of a morning is the only way I'll be on time.

LieIns
Many of the things you list as priorities others have said they organise the night before. In the bad parenting league I have told DS to get in the car when he hasn't brushed his teeth and he that will just have to suffer being called stink breath. Learning to be on time is important.

Atm it's that he has to stay up later than me to allow me to sleep because of his terrible snoring, he has no excuse, however, for taking three whole years to eventually go and see his GP about his snoring and he only did that because his snoring started effecting his own sleep as well as mine.

Worra - my DD's school does issue fines for frequent lateness, not sure of exact rules though because I'm a goody two shoes whose DD has never been late :)

I do everything I can the night before too, it does save a lot of time in the morning and no tv in the morning ever!

I also make sure the girls are fed, dressed, have brushed their teeth and done a wee before I get ready as I know I can move myself very quick if need be but they don't seem to be able to

ArseWorms I think it's the way forward really. Some parents are given every single opportunity by the school to go in and speak to the attendance officer...to help work out a way to get their kids to school on time, but some of them simply don't care

everlong your typo made me howl with laughter

Everyone gets done that can be the night before

Sounds a bit severe!

The best thing I found to motivate ds when we started school was planning to walk with other mums and kids in our street to school. Aged 5, his concept of time and being ready was rather vague, but knowing that he got to walk, talk and caper with the "bigger boys" if he did as he was told, getting dressed teeth brushed shoes on etc when I asked, really helped.
It also helped me, to know other people would be waiting if we weren't ready.

doin if he's staying up anyway he may as well be making lunches and setting out school uniform then

The snoring thing sucks :( Good luck with getting it sorted.

I have two colleagues who are late almost every day without exception, neither of them have DC.

Myself and another colleague start an hour before them and both have DC, we are late only in exceptional circs. One of them even lives only about a mile away so could walk therefore never having to wrestle with early morning traffic jams. They are as people just hugely disorganised in everything. They both want DC and they will be the ones that are late for school because it just seems in their nature. The other early morning starter arrives beautifully coiffured every day, I am not in her league.