to think council shouldn't pay for lollypop lady outside private school?

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is this not the council subsidising private education? Just annoys me to see all the massive 4 x 4s dropping pfbs and then there's a lollypop lady there laid on by the council? Shouldn't the school organise one themselves?

Is this a joke?

What about all the money those parents are saving the local council by not taking up places for their pfbs in the local state schools?

Just sayin'...

No, the council are subsidising road safety.,

yeah, we'll let all the posho kids die on the roads - natural selection and all that

ya being MASSIVELY unreasonable - it's a school with children ffs.

so the council should only help with road safety for certain children then?

presumably it is a public road and the council has a duty of care to all children and parents

Hear hear lisaro

No. The council look after the road, where pedestrians going anywhere at that time of day can be kept safe from the 4x4s by crossing with the lollipop lady.

YABU

all schools should have them, we haven't had lollipop people for years and years :(

It's just as much to ensure drivers safety isn't it? So kids aren't darting out all over the road?

Who cares if it is preventing accidents? Is this for real?

Yabu.
They are employing someone to keep the children safe... Are private school children not entitled to that??

There are lollipop men/women on a couple of roundabouts near me, not right outside schools. horror of horror - some children who may be privately educated may use them as well as the state school children .

Perhaps the state school pupils should be issued with a lollipop pass which will mean the private school pupils can be shoed off to cross somewhere more dangerous.

Have you thought about writing to the Daly Mail?

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YABU. Why shouldnt there be a lollypop lady outside the school?

I do see you point but, from experience, it's a bloody miracle to get a lollipop lady (or person if we are politically correct?!) anywhere. We have tried to get one for years outside our local primary but the council do not think the road is busy enough. The pattern and quantity of traffic determines lollipop provision, not the type of school.

Is this for real?
People who send their children to private school also pay council tax

YANBU if people choose to educate their children privately they certainly cannot expect any of the usual services you expect from the State. It's outrageous that the council should be concerned about these children getting safely across the road.

Flip it on its head OP (that's if you haven't been flipped on yours already)

The lollipop lady is there to help keep traffic flowing freely

You know, like cars whose drivers have paid road tax.

Surely this is road safety rather than education. I think the costs of a lollipop person should be paid for by fining drivers (at both state and private) schools for parking on the yellow zigzag lines.

Anyway how do you know that the lollipop lady is being paid for by the council. The school may have come to some arrangement with the council to fund it. I am sure the business rates the school pays more than covers the cost and the lives of private school kids are important as well.

It sounds as if you got too much time on your hands.

They shouldn't be allowed to go to the park after school either, all those well healed shoes wearing away at council maintained tarmac, tsk! Their rich parents should club together and buy them some parkland.

They shouldn't ever be allowed on buses either, with their well-fed, rounded bums wearing away the upholstery, leave some cushioning for us paupers!

OP you know you're being unreasonable.

I don't see her fecking point! My DD used to go to a very local pruvate prep school and they actually painted OVER the zebra crossing when the schcool 1st took over the building. Prior to them moving there it had been the local infants school....apparently our council thought that children who go to private school don't need help to cross the road.

Utterly ridiculous. A fair amoount of local children walked to the school daily and others had to walk down a main road which was thick with traffic and then cross at a busy intersection with no help.

OP have a

yabu

children at private school are entitled to be safe as ones in state school

oh and have

YABU

It is the same arguement given bout the police providing crowd safety at football matches etc. It all brings in money via tax etc, pays for itself in the long run.

Anything to do with the public outside of private property should be overseen and paid for by the Local Authority to ensure safety etc.

Oh and people buying 4x4's have provided much needed employment in my home town, so YABU.

YANBU OP. Those horrible little Tory shits deserve to get run over. I bet they even breathe better, privately-paid-for air. Bastards.

YABVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVU. V.

It's a road safety issue, not a private/government school issue - the parents of children in a private school pay tax and council tax just like anyone else.

Would you like the council to stop collecting rubbish from private schools? Or how about they refuse to change the bulbs in the street lamps outside the school gates? I know, if something happens to a child in the private school, let's leave it to them to make a plan to get the sick child to hospital - can't have public funds wasted on an ambulance for sick rich children.