people who double park/on pavements/double yellow outside are just LAZY & THICK

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If you are late, park safely and walk faster or leave the house earlier, it's the same pick up time everyday, set an alarm if you are not capable of being on time. If you are late, call the school or if only a few mins late get it into your thick head that your child will come to no harm! If young, the teacher takes them back into school, if older you already have plan worked out that if you are late you wait in the playground of go back into school.

I really don't see why people have to be so thick with the parking? I say all this as I fuming that a women double parked then tried to reverse into a sea of children on the pavement to do a three point turn just now outside our school.

Why do people act this way? I am genuinely asking as I really don't get it.

Having a car park doesn't solve the parking issue. My dd1's school has quite large grounds. When the school was rebuilt they laid out a parents' car park and drop off only area at one door and disabled parking places at another. People park in the drop off area blocking it for half an hour, the disabled places are often unusable as people (usually not disabled) park along more than one space instead of manouvring into the space. Worst of all people will drive up onto and along the pavement, not that slowly either all to save a few yards.

I also live very near a school in a small cul-de-sac. This week alone we have had people parked on the double yellow lines coming into our road which would be completely invisible to anybody turning into it until it was too late. We have had people parked on the yellow lines next to the pinch point so I have had to edge my car into through the space with inches to spare (apparently it doesn't count as parking on double yellow lines if you sit there with your engine running). I have also twice had to squeeze passed a car parked in front of our drive. We have a double width drive so I suppose I can still get onto it, techinically but it is tight and it means i am not parking in my space and I have to move it again in order to allow room for DH when he get home, plus they are blocking our neighbour getting out of their drive easily too.

The school itself has had so much hassle that they now lower the barriers and shut the gate to the school grounds at pick up and drop off time as there have been so many near misses that it was only a matter of time before somebody got seriously hurt. Even disabled parents are no longer allowed to drive into the grounds as other lazy arses parents were tall gating them through the barriers even though they weren't entitled to be on the school grounds.

That doesn't include all the other stupidity and near misses out on the other roads around our house.

It would seem that some people believe that they get a special dispensation to park where they like and act like twats just because they have children - I can think of no other reason why they think their behaviour is allowed. They'll 'only be a minute' after all.

I know of a school where parents can park in the car play ground - but the gates are closed 5 mins before the end of school and ALL cars have to be parked the same way so no one can reverse out.

At school end of day the kids are allowed out but the gates stay locked until all children are in cars.

The gates are then unllocked and cars leave in order.

The head master says no child should be in danger of being run over in the playground.