To be annoyed that the DSs' school is banning buggies from being brought inside?

[DinosChapman]

Buggies are to be left in the shelter in the playground, and not brought into the school.

Presumably parents are meant to take their younger child or children out of the buggy and carry or walk them into the school.

Really impracticable, if you ask me. For example, DS3 is 2.7 so he can walk, but he will not get out of the buggy in situations where he feels uncomfortable, or doesn't know where he is. What is DH supposed to do, leave him out in the playground in the dark?

It would be fine, in our case, if DS1 and DS2 could always be collected from the playground, and that is indeed what happens on the days when they go home at 3.30.

However, children going to after-school clubs, or to playcentre, are not just disgorged into the playground - their parent/carer has to go into school, through the main office, to collect them. Hence the problem, for us.

The other issue is what to do if you have to do something at the school office - which can often involve queueing up for 20 minutes - again, nightmare if you have demented toddler/wailing baby and no buggy to put them in.

i work at a school and you aren't supposed to take them in there for health and safety reasons

prob cos every one blocks the doors with them

i have always taken dd in she's 16mths and just walks in

my son was invloved in an accident a while ago because of someones pushchair being where it shouldn't so i can understand the rule although it can be a pain in the arse when it's raining

And when nt DS2 was the toddler - of course he walked to school with DH every day at pick-up time - no problem because he was nt and could understand explanations etc.

elf and safety is used as a blanket reason for everything these days. If there's a genuine fire hazard then I think OK, cite that and come up with a suggestion, i.e. here's a buggy park/you can choose to have your child disgorged into the playground/we could airlift him to you/beam him up, blah blah.

Can you quote the dda dino? I think you've got more of a case than most.

I think it's best for everyone concerned that dh takes and collects dd from nursery while I take and collect ds from breakfast club/after school club!

Which is obviously why you need an exemption.

Aloha our school is also Victorian and like that but about 1/2 the size by the sounds of it (152 pupils). We just walk round through the playground at the side and to the door which opens into the area outside Y1 and Y2. It's when you get inside to the mayhem that there is a problem. I was once picking two of DS's friends up, had them and DD all waiting, and DS was leaning on a desk at the back of the classroom reading his reading book. But I couldn't get near enough to shout to him.

Our school have this no buggies rule too, apparantly it's a fire hazard.
It is very annoying, but parents don't actually have to go inside the school building to collect the children, so it is more of a problem if you need to go inside the building to talk to the secretary etc.
If you have to actually remove the child from their pushchair everyday to collect your children from their classrooms, it must be a nightmare!

Gosh, you are lucky if you can take buggies into school, there isn't any room for even the parents in our school, infact parents wait outside in the playground dropping off and picking up, unless in the reception year, but not buggies! babes have to be lifted out if want to go inside the school building!

cat that is how it works at our school during the day. But at 3.30 they open the downstairs door and the flood of parents enters the shared area (area used as cloakroom and for certain activities) to wait for their children to be let out of Y1 and Y2. The teacher stands at the door and calls "Jack your Mum is here, Eve your Dad is here you can go" and the children emerge from the classroom when called (unless they are DS that is).

And yes it is mass congestion, the first children are trying to leave, as the last parents are still entering the building.

at DD's school we have to go inside the classroom to collect the children. loads of people take pushchairs inside and it is a nightmare. i have started taking DS out of his and i carry him or one of the other mums watches him for me. i wouldn't leave him outside on his own, but many mums do that with their children.
we had quite a debate going lately as there was one mum who took her 3.5 year old DS in on reins and an EMPTY buggy too. it is so chaotic already and she blocked up the way with it. the head teacher sent out a note to all parents asking to not take pushchairs inside anymore if possible and it makes sense. if there was a fire it would be a nightmare to get out of there!

I have a bad back and struggle A LOT just picking two smallies up from nursery with bags etc. - up flights of stairs so unable to use buggy. It's SO hard. I agree that they should make exemptions - maybe have a special band you can put over your buggy handles so that the other parents don't beat you up in the toilets for breaking "the rules"

Is there another kid in your child's afterschool class with a pushchair-bound sibling around the 6pm time? If so you could team up with the parent - one runs up to meet the older kids, the other waits downstairs with the littlies. You'd have to inform the school of your arrangement obviously.

I understand that it can cause inconvenience to some people but you have to think in a bigger picture. It's probably due to health and safety issues. Imagine if your child gets unwell and the emergency services are not quick enough to reach your child due to buggies on the way, you'd be blaming the school.

I don't think it's a problem for OP any more - her DS is probably not using a buggy now he's coming up to 15.

Ah ah. Didn't even notice the date