Looking for some advice and maybe some case studies as I'm sure this happens at 99% of all primary schools - David Attenborough should even consider doing a fucking school run documentary since some parents just behave like beasts!
We have a really bad problem at our primary school at present with parents parking on grass verges, double yellow lines and even parking straight onto bends opposite the school. One of the cars is picking up and dropping off DS at reception so there is potentially 7 years of this bullshit lazy parking to go. It's a really tight squeeze anyway and about 4/5 cars but 2 in particular who are really bad block the corner every day, someone is going to be knocked down. There is a local car park which I kid you not- is located across the road and is 5 minutes walk away and I park up a hill far away from the madness in the other direction which is about 3 mins away, it's pure laziness - no excuses.
It's become a hot topic on the local Facebook page and there is so many furious parents and locals but we are all to afraid to directly ask those parking to STOP. (To be honest they're the type who look like they would stab their mother for a fiver and a packet of hob nobs - so confrontation is not a plan - not in front of kids). Police have been and asked them to move on and they're just back in the exact spot the same day - they don't give a shit!
Considering going to school asking them to consider these options:
Calling in traffic wardens for fines (who would you call though - how are they different to regular police that I'm sure the school have called.)
Placing cones along all the double yellow lines
Getting the PTA to buy signs to stick in the ground on the verges - something shaming them like "lazy parking costs lives".
What have you tried that you know works?
I hope I don't come across a jobs worth. I am usually so chilled but it's getting so dangerous now I cannot believe my eyes some days- I would post a pic but don't want to be identified.