Kids on scooters during school run 😒

[Heyjude16]

It drives me insane. Small path to school and they come zooming so fast up behind you that if you don't move you get smacked at the back of your legs, and then none of them say please or thank you or excuse me. Drives me insane! 😒

Just read the posting about scooters in supermarkets. I too find this totally unacceptable. Why not just let them ride a bike, get a quad bike for the older ones that will save them having to walk and be a bit patient when with an adult going about doing something for them e.g. usually gathering food supplies.

I sometimes have to escort gs to school and he uses scooter

So, you just give into his demand that he scoots...?

Lots of driveways etc round here. Just not many cars reversing out of the at ten to 9, or 10 past 3.

I'm a bit nonplussed by the whole "scooters are for parks" thing. Scooters and bikes are banned in all the parks we frequent. Scooters are more of a mode of transport than anything else. Very practical. Our school has a secure scooter-cage thingy for them to be parked in, and scooting is positively encouraged.

I agree, its a teach your child manners thing, not a scooter problem. Our school encourages scooters and provides secure storage. No scooting on school ground though.

I'd like to ban cars though, there are so many more car incidents at our school.

This morning I saw someone reverse park onto a pavement full of people right outside the school, she would have hit at least 10 people if they'd not jumped out of the way quick! Maybe the car drivers need to be taught manners too!

I hate them so much. I'm visually impaired and physically disabled, so alternate between a crutch / cane set up, and an electric wheelchair. My eyes can't track movement, and I have tunnel vision, so having something zooming out suddenly on one side of me scares me shitless, and some days it's so bad I'm close to tears by the end of the school run. Obviously if I'm using my cane I'm sweeping it from side to side, and the amount of FUCKING times a scooter has hit my cane, completely disoriented me, and I've been glared at by the child and / or parent, for being visually impaired. I've actually had parents complain at me for using my cane because it's got in the way of their child scootering ffs.

The very worst ones are the ones who do it on the already crowded play ground on the walk through to the classrooms before and after school. Fucking ridiculous.

Rah.

Heelys should be banned or at least inconsiderate parents who let DC use them in supermarkerts and shops should! Recently in supermarket I have seen women kick up a huge fuss as a security bloke "dared" to tell her to stop her kids goind mad around the store on heelyls

yes the scooters are annoying,as is smoking outside the school gates-cant you wait 5 mins?also cant stand the mums who stroll casually down the road with their buggies side by side taking up the whole path so no one can get passed

YDNBU OP.

Earthbound that made me re the scootering parent!

lurked101 that doesn't surprise me re Oxford St. It happens everywhere.
It took a shop worker to tell a couple that their DCs could not scooter around the store recently. They appeared to both think it was adorable before someone interjected.

Rhuba Exactly!! There are very strange double standards where cars are concerned. There are many terrible accidents with cars, some actually killing children! You don't find many people saying we should ban them.

There isn't the hysteria surrounding them as there is e.g. meningitis vaccines.

Incidentally I just got cut up by a very small child getting through the entrance hall of Earls Court Tube Station. FFS. Parent/nanny/guardian nowhere in sight.

*hurtling! On a scooter.

It's the scooters in supermarkets that are the worst. And those flippin trainers that they skate along on (down the aisles).

I have had quite a few buggies run into the back of my legs, but no scooters at all (a few near misses). I find kids on scooters on the school run less annoying and less inconsiderate than car drivers. Glad to hear some schools are promoting scooting.

What gets my goat is the group of mums who after dropping off their kids stop for a gossip on the pavement right by the zebra crossing so that cars have to stop or slow down only to find they are ignored.

My DSs are almost 16 and 15 and their main form of transport is still a scooter. The only people they have ever injured are themselves though.

I hear what you are saying, it's about people who scooter inconsiderately rather than scooters in principle though.

They never scootered to school though as it was about a 30 second walk.

Most kids up to age 8 or so use them here, and no problems - they aren't allowed to scoot in the playground and they are great when encouraging a child out of the buggy but acknowledging that walking a mile isn't going to be instantly easy.

If they scoot too far ahead, especially on the bits where there are cars on driveways, or don't stop around other people, then they go on the leash or have to walk. On the whole the scooting kids are much more aware of their surroundings than the older kids moseying along chatting to their mates!

Never seen a child scooting in the supermarket, presumably because the staff would stop it.

To be honest the scooters don't bother me one bit, most children are extremely polite and it's nice to see them exercising. The relentless school gate traffic jam of cars really does bother me! I've seen so much road rage and countless near misses!

Ah! My people! I hate hate hate them but always feel like a kitten killer saying so.

I hate the bloody things and wish the law was enforced. It is against the law to use them on the pavement but the Department of Transport says it's too hard to enforce.

Very narrow pavements where I live. One wobble and scooter plus child would be in the traffic. Still loads of small children on scooters every morning, 6 inches away from lorries and buses but far away from parents.
Either I am too anxious or the parents are stupid.

*There are very strange double standards where cars are concerned. There are many terrible accidents with cars, some actually killing children! You don't find many people saying we should ban them.

There isn't the hysteria surrounding them as there is e.g. meningitis vaccines.*

This x 1000

If there was anything else responsible for as many child deaths, injuries & illnesses there would be protests calling for it to be banned

Last weekend I saw a child on a scooter... Scootering down the aisle of... An aeroplane.

It's daft to compare them with cars - many people need a car because of where they live, their lifestyle and public transport that doesn't meet their needs, but scooters are only rarely a true necessity.

I got three sons through school, from Reception to leaving, without any of them using a scooter to get to school - and we didn't use the car most of the time. When they were at primary school, we walked most of the time, and then when they got old enough, they walked on their own or got the bus.

Some of the accounts on here of children shooting off the pavement into the road - under a bus, in one case - are terrifying to read.

I have nothing against scooters or heelys - as long as they are being ridden safely and considerately - which is the parents' responsibility. And frankly, if all parents were taking that responsibility seriously, threads like this would be a non-event.

Its the kids on scooters in supermarkets that piss me off. So many times I have been nearly banged into