To think that school run drivers are selfish cunts?

[GladAllOver]

Just that. They park anywhere and everywhere, regardless of other drivers or local residents.

As a non driving school parent who walks. You ate spot on. We all get tarred even when not driving. The amount of dangerous situations I have seen would make your blood cuddle pulled.more than one child out of the road as the parents are parked on the corner. Sickeningly some live 30 seconds walk but want the car on show....

Curdle fucking spell check. Do a post about spell check lol

oh god it's a fucking nightmare. i hatez them.

I’m a school run driver. I park in the car park. We all do. I have never seen anyone park in the village instead of the car park.

so are they parking illegally? All of them?

They have just as much right on the road as anyone else

Yanbu

We have a local.park with plenty of spaces a five minute walk from the school.

People still insist on dropping off in the dog days, parking over dropped kerbs, and half on the pavements forcing people to walk their baby in the buggy on the road.

It's not even a time issue because they never there really early to ensure a space.

Just bloody walk.

I have to drive as I live a few miles out but I use the park car park and do not contribute to the chaos.

Obviously not all. But plants are

I’m a school run driver but not a cunt with it. Let’s not generalise every driver as some of us actually are considerate.

Dog days?

Zig zags

Ffs

Plants?!?! Plenty. Plants are mostly considerate parkers I believe.

I walk but it amazes me the state of parking on the road nearest to school. Cars all parking on the grass verges and pavements because they don't want to walk more than a few metres.

Totally agree. I live opposite a (secondary) school and it's absolute bedlam at school start and end times. I literally can't get out of my road, and there's some appalling driving behaviour on display, including some cars just stopping in the middle of a T-junction to let their little darling out. So dangerous as well as completely f*ing all the traffic up for everyone else. No idea why these kids need to be driven to school since they're secondary age and we're right in the middle of central London so many, many public transport options are available (and god forbid, walking to school).

Our secondary school has no parking .no choice but to park on the road.. ridiculous planning for a school of 700pupils.

There does seem to be a general lack of awareness. I don't do the school run any more bar the odd day when DS2 has too much to carry.

The infant school next door to the High school has a very interesting selection of school run drivers. They park all down the main road in the cycle lane, failing that they just pull up onto the grass verges churning them up and getting mud everywhere.

The school bus layby is also a favourite dropping off spot.

"Our secondary school has no parking .no choice but to park on the road.. ridiculous planning for a school of 700pupils."

? When was it built? In general secondary school children are expected to make their own way too and from school.

Yes, I HAVE to drive, but am not a cunt and manage to park legally and not blocking anyone. Some people will always be arseholes and park badly, that's not just the school run. So yes, yabu to generalise, as I'm sure 95% of drivers manage to park well. It's the 5% that stick out.

Our secondary school has no parking .no choice but to park on the road.. ridiculous planning for a school of 700pupils

Is there really no parking or is it like my dds
Secondary school where you aremt allowed to use the car park as there are limited spaces and pre agreed/arranged double parking, and to ensure that those brought in by transport, and those who are disabled and need to be in the car park can do so safely ?

I don't think it's a bad thing. Just drop your kid off somewhere else and let them walk.

I have to drive DD1 to school (or do a 1 hour walk each way). I park consideratepy, even if it means a 5 minute walk from the car to school. But not everyone does. Every week there's reminders in the school newsletter. The poor residents on that road, I feel sorry for them.

It's not always possible for High School children to make their own way to school. That's the ideal but there are too many variables.

I’m a school run driver I’m not a cunt but plenty are. It makes my blood run cold the dangerous driving and parking I see around the school it’s a miracle there hasn’t been an accident yet. I leave my house much earlier than I need to so I can park safely and legally and if I didn’t live a 50 minute bus ride away I’d definitely get public transport instead.

Yes it’s survival of the fittest out there.

I’d love to see a David Attenborough documentary on the school run.

@QuietContraryMary

Built about 15 years ago.. I live in Ireland. That's not realistic for a lot of people... Catchment area is about twenty Miles..some are too far for the bus, some are too close to the school for bus but to far to walk, especially on shit roads.
I live 15 mins drive away so D's gets the bus..but wometjimes I need to collect him and it's chaotic.

I used to be a bus driver, drove school runs for a while. The selfishness of some of the parents was mind-blowing. We had to arrive at least 30 minutes early or we literally couldn't get anywhere near the bus bay because it was jammed with parents in gigantic vehicles, each often picking up only 1 child. And often they lived very close to the school. Very weird, very environmentally poor, very entitled, very poor example for the kids and very annoying.

I go early to get a space in the village car park because I hate parking outside peoples houses and I've been blocked in a few times by CF's who cant set off at a reasonable time to get a space.

Why on earth do secondary school kids need dropping off outside the school? I used to drive DCs some of the way as we moved out of catchment area and drop them off in the Tesco Express car park about half a mile away. CBA with bedlam around the school and wanted my children to be independent not expecting to be taken door to door everywhere. I now drop DSD off at her friends on my way to work and they walk about a mile together. Her Dad would have her walking twice that distance if I wasn't going that way anyway.