To ask school to choose? (parking)

[Carpark1]

Aibu to ask my DD’s school to choose to alert that they must reverse park. There are no guidelines in the car park and I just feel like it’s mayhem. If we all reversed parked then it may be s bit more streamlined and time saving? Do you think they would find me weird for suggesting it ?😂😬

Op I am in Ireland and we have a very similar set up and our parents have all been instructed to reverse park. It works very well. We get a reminder every September. No one complains, they just do it!

I'm so confused... If people can't reverse into a parking space, how can they reverse out of one? It's the same thing, surely?

No its not.

Youngandfree 👍

@jennymanara it is to me, if someone can't reverse park they shouldn't be on the roads. Something is lacking, spacial awareness for one.

@Usuallyinthemiddle

Not not only in MN and it's been established that reverse parking is safer. Because you're reversing into an empty car parking space where children don't stand rather than reversing into the car park which children have to walk to to get to their car! In the same way I reverse into my drive which is empty instead of reversing into the road which has cars on it! I still can't believe people don't get this!

jennymanara isn't it? How come? Off to Google...

I can do both and I think it is different. Just as parallel parking involves reversing and observation, but you can be good at parallel parking and poor at reversing into a bay.

homemademadness Maybe where I live is different. But my experience is with parents doing the school run, you do have kids running behind your car as you are reversing into a bay.

If people can't reverse into a parking space, how can they reverse out of one? It's the same thing, surely?

It’s not because your target is smaller reversing in - you need to be more accurate. I can do either though.

But I don't mean parallel parking. Just that you either have to reverse in or out of the same parking space, surely it's the Dave manoeuvre - just in reverse? Not being goady, I just don't understand why people would say they can reverse out but not in.

🤣 Dave maneouvre. Same obviously, leave Dave out if this, his parking's fine.

I had to do reverse parallel parking in my test/lessons in 1996. DH didn't have to do the reverse parallel parking bit a few years earlier in 1991.
I am sure we both had to learn how to reverse around a corner though, but there was no other reversing into parking spaces.
You couldn't drive on a motorway at all either, but once you'd passed you were free to go where you liked.

You were however only tested on some manoeuvres, not all.

Now you have to do reverse into a parking bay, but not round a corner iirr.

You have a bigger space to aim at reversing out. I think most people can reverse in. It is the getting it straight and in the middle without faffing about that is usually the problem.

It's only safer if people are good at it. If you're the one going backwards and forwards a million times to get in the space -and not actually turning your effing wheel- then you're still not safe. And there's kids everywhere. Schools and cars are a disaster waiting to happen backwards or forwards.

A boy was hit by a car reversing out of a space in our school car park, luckily very slowly and he was ok. But if that car had reversed into the space he would have been safe as he would still have been in school, and the driver going forwards when he was there would have seen him.
I always reverse into my drive after I nearly hit a small child who had stopped at the bottom of my drive after I’d got in my car, so I hadn’t seen. Luckily the parents shouted loudly ( they were a couple of houses back walking down the path) and I hadn’t sped out the drive,
so I stopped.

Nancydrawn

That's really interesting, I had no idea. I can understand the situation with diagonal parking, you would never reverse into those, but do you get a ticket in an ordinary parking bay?

But no, people here almost never reverse park, which means anyone who does surprises the hell out of the people driving behind them in the carpark.

This also happened to a friend of mine after she moved to the States

But surely people are reversing at some point in either situation.
They are either reversing in or out.

Just walk and stop all the fuss.

Larry just read OPS comments and stop all the fuss

@LarryGreysonsDoor 🙄 yeah we can’t walk as we live rurally on winding country roads, no one walks to the school! There’s two houses within walking distance and neither of them have kids!

As in reverse into a car park space.

I'm shocked there's people who can't as a) it's part of the test and b) my 14 yo can do it! (He did a young drivers day).

It may require practice but you should be specially aware enough if driving.?

Isn't a bit like painting a wall or ironing a shirt or cooking spag bol or asking for a coffee in Russian? It's not really rocket science, some people are too lazy even to attempt but if you spend five minutes researching it and practice a bit then you can do it. That's how everyone who can currently do it started!

Our parents can't follow the instructions to not park across neighbouring driveways so I can't see it being enforceable. Carrying one small dc in is fine but with twins I used to have to use the double buggy to get dd1 from the car to the gate. I did leave twins in the car once (visible from the gate) and a parent called the police and reported me.

How did you pass your driving test without the ability to reverse park treacle shock.

Wasn't in the test in 1990!

You're lucky you can park in your school car park ours only has enough for staff cars. Park outside like most people or better still, walk!