To think that the person who wrote this is quite simply a twat?

[Mouseyinmyhousey]

From FB.

Over the Easter holidays the roads were traffic free. Proving that rush hour I'd caused by parents taking their kids to school. It should be law that all parents should be made to walk to school whatever the weather, getting rid of rush hour, and obesity. Also if people want a better school they'll have to walk further, or better still, make everyone attend they're local school thus making a fairer society.

Complete nob, right?

Imagine the police patrol cars you'd need to enforce this law.....

Why doesn't he or she walk to work too, or take public transport?

Why should my DCs sit in wet clothes all day from the rain, to make his drive to work easier?

True dat, Worra. Bit of a goady one imo.

usual agree completely.

Can you explain why usualsuspect?

In my limited experience it definitely seems to be the case.

It was a bit twatish yes, as they're not taking into account working parents taking time off for the holidays, teachers driving to school and school transport too. At DS's school the dc that need transport get a taxi to school in the mornings.

Plenty of perfectly good schools in poorer areas.

Nothing suspect at all. He's not on my Fb, I'm not on Fb, this is from SIL but its someone I know.

I agree pp, I drove dc to s better school on my way to work. And it really is a better school, my two local schools are failing miserably and are in special measures.

Obviously a total nobber who thinks the roads are for grownups only.

Why grownups can't get public transport to work is beyond me.

We walk to school - and hardly anyone drives to our school because we are just inside the Congestion Charging zone, but I hate this meme about car use and children - subtly anti women imho. Maybe some parents simply don't have an hour to spend at either end of the day walking half an hour to and from school. Maybe they work and need to bloody well get on, like everybody else.

I once had an email argument with Mary Ann Sieghart who wrote a very similar thing in the Times. I asked her why she should use the roads but parents of children shouldn't and she said that it wasn't fair on her because her office wasn't very handy by public transport. Well, who'da thought it - people use cars because it's more convenient and that's ok if you are a London journalist but not if you are anyone else trying to get people to where they need to go and then go to work.

Of course there are good schools in poorer areas.

Aside from parents who do school drop offs en route to work, then yes people should walk their children to school.

I see parents who live closer to the school than I do driving their children to school. They are lazy.

In my city it seems to be the case that where you have a very deprived area, the schools tend to be failing, poor ofsted, low attainment, poor attendance. Of course I'm sure that there are exceptions, but I did a lot of research when looking at schools, and also see and hear a lot through work.

What about people who live rurally who simply cannot walk the miles and miles?

You should all sell your cars, then cycle your children to school/nursery then on to work. Because this works for our family, it must be the case that it would work for every other family across the country, dontcha know.

( lmao at the "poor wet kids" though, I do believe they have invented umbrellas and waterproofs in this brave new world we live in)

In my city there are a mixture across the board.

Lots of sought after schools where I live [inner city London]

Also child pedestrians / cyclists are among the most vulnerable road users so I don't blame parents for wanting to drive them.

I'd say a very large % of school-based traffic in cities is caused by teachers and support staff getting themselves to school. Or 'driving to work' as its also known.

Children melt in the rain dontcha know!

Children who are always driven everywhere wont be as clued up on being a safe pedestrian as my poor children who are made to walk everywhere.

What Kim said. It's common sense and would solve a lot of problems. Unfortunately, however, many families don't have that choice...which is a thread in itself .

What I want to know is that over 20 years we were promised teleportation - the scientists have evidently been slacking as this really would be sorted out by now.

I don't think people drive they're kids to school because of the rain though do they? It's usually distance or on route to work.

I basically just can't stand this guy, he was having a debate recently about the woman with the 11 kids who was rehoused in the 6 bed. Saying she's a slag and there's no such thing as a single parent unless the other parent has snuffed it. He posted a link to the Sun and got slated for it, but he accused the others of not wanting to know what's going on in the world, and burying their heads in the sand.

Do you really get lots of parents driving their kids to school Amber ? Noone bothers round here, not to state schools anyway, I think of it as a non-inner-London issue, it would take longer to drive and park, we have 5 schools within a 10 min walk so even if you don't go to the absolute closest, all the kids seem to walk/scoot/cycle.

Like the status!

My DC get driven to school but at a time when they have no other traffic. If my DP drove me and DC home, then we caught the bus to school we would have a nightmare drive. He just takes us straight to the school after my night shift, which means waiting around, not clogging up the roads.

I do think you should post the proper link so the grammar nazis oh no not me, not at all can go and put their mistakes right!!