To wish schools did a collection and delivery service, they could do it to raise funds for the school

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Say if you live within a ten min walk

You should be able to pay say a pound to have your child walked home

That would be so handy

As I have a baby asleep upstairs
And now I'm going to have to get the baby up just to go on use school run

Yes I could ask a friend to drop off my eldest, but I don't like to take advantage and would rather save favours for emergencys

I think this is a brilliant earner for older kids at the same school. Surely a trustworthy 11 year old would want to earn 5 pounds a week for a few minutes walking out of their way?

Either put your baby down for a nap in the pushchair, or let your 7 year old walk home alone. It seems unnecessary to involve other people in this "problem".

I wouldn't let my 8 year old walk the 7 mins home from school alone. He's on another planet mostly. He forgets halfway through whatever he was meant to be doing. Just thinking about him bimbling across the road with his mind a thousand miles away gives me the fear.

But, yeah, put the baby in the pram and don't be so daft.

I really don't think it's the school's job to organise delivery/collection of pupils for parents who basically can't organise their day to collect their own child a short distance.

Parents who work couldn't avail themselves of the service as they wouldn't be at home to wave off/receive the child, and I don't see the argument for SAHPs needing it. Surely one of the nicest benefits of being at home is the journey home with your kids, talking about their day?

Even the delivering parcels to schools wouls be absolutely riddled with difficulties.

School admin quite rightly wouldn't see it as their job to become an agent for a distribution network and being on hand to reciieve parcels and passing them on to the right parent. Let alone sort out parcels thst aren't collected by parents or haven't been delivered.

Where would they store the parcels that would soon mount up? What if parents are busily ordering e-drugs, porn or replica weapons for delivery to school? You'd be okay with ghrm being on the premises?
I am amazed to the degree that people expect others to ease their passage through life and take on duties that are nothing to do with their job role in exchange for a pittance.

I can see the benefit of the child delivery service.
If you are a parent working school hours the extra 20mins or so it would allow you to get home would be really useful.
It would be a PTA thing though - a donation. And I'd image the children would not be walked to the door but 'dropped off' at the end of roads.
Can image a few extra kids being told to tag along with the 'bus' though - getting a 'free ride'.

'If you are a parent working school hours the extra 20mins or so it would allow you to get home would be really useful.'

Unless you were delayed by something unforeseeable, then your infant is sitting on the doorstep awaiting collection. Like a parcel.
Unless it's been delivered to a random neighbour, also like a parcel.

But if you were delayed your child would be sitting (for longer) at the school waiting too. What's the problem with a, say, seven year old having to to sit in the garden for 10 mins?
Obviously depends on your neighbourhood, child's maturity/age, weather etc.

Could someone please reassure me that the suggestion schools become holding centres for people's parcel delivery was a joke?!

Of course no Clam I think it's a brilliant idea

*not

In DS's school the children are only let walk home from the last term of year 5, so most of them would be 10?

sillylass (forgive me- I don't actually feel comfortable writing that!) - what will you do when the parents of the children you're dropping home aren't actually home, because, y'know they got held up elsewhere, or they popped to the shops, or they just plain don't care that they're inconveniencing you?

Official school after-care services charge £25 per 15 minutes late for a reason- because there are some parents that will be late every single day otherwise, because they're too self-centered to care about the impact it has on others.

Easy Fram, you'd adapt one of these i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p587/Asgard_Storage/Parcel%20delivery%20boxes/asgard-Parcel-Delivery-box-Large_zpsb8e5ffff.jpgwith a little grill in the front and an inbuilt gaming or DVD device.