Banning the school run

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leading on from driving/walking thread, Gove suggests banning driving children to school.

All schools to be double red lined ( not stopping, unloading, pausing at all.)

all roads within half a mile of a school to be resident parking by permit only during school drop off or pick up time.

parents not allowed to park within half a mile of their school.

(Although most roads round here must be within half a mile of a school?)

This sort of reminds me of a benefits thread. Because a very small minority drive when they COULD walk, park inconsiderately and cause all sorts of problems, the vast majority of parents who drive because they have to, as others have said, on the way to /from work - allocated or choose a school far from home because it is the right school for their child etc and don't park badly are all lumped together as selfish unhealthy twats who need to be forced into some other kind of behaviour. Of course this is completely unworkable and unenforceable. I have every sympathy with residents who are inconvenienced by bad parking and traffic but it is a choice you make when you move near a school and has to be challenged ona school by school basis based on the conditions / parking issues at that individual school.

FightingFires

I couldn't give a flying fuck about working parents who endanger the lives of other peoples children as it is round here.
The dc knocked over, quite a few I may add were all working mums on way to work.
The person who knocked down and killed one of our lollipop men was a working mum, on way to work.
I'll give you one guess who swerved round the next lollipop man who was in the middle of the road crossing children.
Go to work, but find work that fits in with life, don't endanger others.
I admit it may just be round here but the working mums are a bunch of selfish, illegal driving and parking cunts.
Rant over.

"Instead of cars snarling close to school, they will be snarling half a mile away, and for around 45 min longer."

Excellent point.

The school my DS goes to now actually has a good system. There is a free 'breakfast club' there from 8am. The children can buy hot food, or just go outside and play until 9.45.

This means that drop-off time is spaced out more, so there isn't such a mad rush around the school at 9.40.

yes all working mums are homicidal child killing rage machines

Morethan

Of course, that is shocking. But those parents will still park like cunts in the streets half a mile away and will probably be even more dangerous as they are in even more of a hurry. Don't you think?

I admit it may just be round here but the working mums are a bunch of selfish, illegal driving and parking cunts.

Righty ho. Round here they are just people who need to keep a roof over their heads, feed their families, that sort of thing. You can't define all working mothers by the actions of a few really can you.

Link follows:

www.maidstoneandmedwaynews.co.uk/OBESITY-SUMMIT-parking-mile-schools-banned/story-21186514-detail/story.html

Best I can find. I honestly don't think it was Gove this time.

I blame the SAHMs they're the ones in their huge 4x4s driving to the gym or rushing off to get their botox appointments when they should be prioritising walking their DCs to school

Well I try not to park like a count but I have had a nasty letter put on my windscreen about how extremely inconsiderate I am too and how they won't be held responsible if damage happens to my car whilst outside their house

It's my daughter's motobility car :(

I hate all of it. I have brought shit without having to drive my child to/from school anyway. It wasn't my choice. I am not an aggressive or confrontational person and I hate it

I've never knocked anyone over but I don't see how walking for a couple of miles in the rain and cutting an hour and a half off my working day 'to fit in with my life' is going to make me a better driver.
I don't see how parking half a mile from school for 90 mins a day is better than parking 200yds away for 10 minutes.

I would like to see more flexibility with drop off/pick up. We have 10 mins leeway at the start of school and non at the end. After school club is £8 per child whether you use it for 5 min or 2.5 hours. It would be helpful if even the jrs were allowed to play on the playground for 15 mins and be collected within that window.

working dads are of course perfect ...

seriously are you trying to turn this into a working V SAHM debate on the back of PARKING only on MN!

Thanks Andrew
Don't think it's worth getting worked up over what appears to be a question raised by one councillor in Medway.....

It's all part of the SAHMs have nothing better to do and WOHMs are selfish cunts narrative

FFS - the government should stop bloody legislating about crap like school runs and actually do something useful about children and their families living below the poverty line instead. The cynical side of me think that all the parking fines will be useful revenue raising if these rules do come into force.

FWIW DS1 and DS2 go to a school 4 miles away - they drive to school and we park in pay and display bays by a near by park and walk quarter of a mile to get to the school. Is he seriously saying all those pay and display bays would be banished?

yes - your damned either way - welcome to motherhood

"Well I try not to park like a count"

I try to park like a marquis

Seriously, Owl, sorry those residents have been arsey to you.

Sorry it was probably me that lowered the tone, I meant it in jest as us working mothers were getting a bashing yet again.

I don't give a flying toot how people get their DCs into school and what their status is, provided they do it in a safe fashion.

No government would ever do that, even if they had a 150 seat majority.

Child bus fares are free in London but it does not solve the issue.

Though a congestion charge to enter the area near the school would probably have an effect- £10 per day or walk with your child(ren) would certainly change behaviour.

"Though a congestion charge to enter the area near the school would probably have an effect- £10 per day or walk with your child(ren) would certainly change behaviour."

Given breakfast club costs £3, I think it would mean breakfast club was suddenly oversubscribed.

My kindle makes me very polite in my c word usage :)

I have been shouted at about other people's cars too. My mother says I have one of those faces

Our nearest school has a council car park 50 yards down the road, all the parents coming from one side park there (doubt they pay). Would they close that do you think? It's a shoppers car park too.

We are in a residents' parking less than half a mile and have visitors' cards.

Can't find any evidence than this is planned for the whole UK: it was introduced in one council in scotland in 2012

and also tried in Scunthorpe starting last February

Someone wit no political power called for this policy to be introduced in 2013 (warning Daily Mail link)

OP Where did you actuallt get this from??

While i agree in theory in an ideal world, how very bloody blinkered and London focussed of him!
We couldn't get dd a place in our village sch so gave to drive 5 miles to another one- should she walk?! Ffs!

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10881955/Gove-to-dock-parents-benefits-for-condoning-truancy.html
Has the OP come back with a source for this school run story yet? I can't find any mention of Gove linked to this, he's too busy peddling his shite about linking the receipt of Child Benefit to the parent's interaction with schools, see link above.