..to expect the school to do something about this?

[Iovestruck]

I live opposite a park. Some kids have started coming down from their language school every single night and they scream and shout right on the edge of the park opposite my house from 5ish till about half 10. Every night.

I'm 99% sure that's where they're coming from as I've seen them walking down from that direction with their goals and they're not speaking English. Certainly not a xenophobia type thing.. we get English kids loitering about drinking cider and fighting etc who are loads more annoying but this is on the odd occasion. I much prefer these kids; they don't litter or drink alcohol.

But this is every night - they are SO loud and they're right next to everybody's houses. It's too hot to close the windows, and it's taking me hours to get my 4yo to sleep. Even with the windows closed, you'd still be able to hear it. They're about 8 steps away, and they bellow.

So I sent an email to the school last night, asking if they could at least play up the other end of the park, where there are no houses (just car dealerships etc).

I also personally wouldn't let my young teenager hang out at that park till late at night, especially in a different country. There's loads of crime and drinking and dodgy characters that hang out there in the evening time. When I walk through it to take my DD to the playpark at the other end, there are countless beer/ vodka bottles, and even occasionally needles (always report these obv). I grew up in this area and was a pretty streetwise teen but me and all my friends knew not to go there late at night. I didn't go into this in my email but writing it down, I think maybe I should have?

AIBU to expect the school to at least tell them to go up the other end of the park? I know nobody has to do anything until after 11, and they're just kids enjoying the summer evenings, but they're so loud, and this is every single day. The language school has an outside area where they could play anyway, and be a lot safer? I can see on this website that placements have just begun, so this could go on the entire summer. Lived here 4 years and never experienced it before.

I feel very sorry for you OP but when this is happening they are their parents responsibility not the school's unless it is a boarding school?

Notify local council? Some areas put cctv up to deter antisocial behaviour...

The language school should deal with it once they are aware. The ones here are all pretty good at making the kids aware of what the rules are.

Ice cream, I get the impression it's a residential summer language school for visiting students.
The school should know and deal with this.

@Finfintytinit ah thank you, sorry I had never heard of them, then in that case absolutely the school should be on it!

Notify local council? Some areas put cctv up to deter antisocial behaviour...

They're not antisocial though. They're having good, clean fun. Just too loudly, and too late for my liking

Yes, sorry. It's a residential language school, so their parents have sent them here for the summer. I know often European culture is that everybody, including the kids, stay out late. But I'm not sure if the parents realise that this really isn't a place you'd let your child hang out late at night at.

Glad I'm not BU to hope they'll do something! My dad reckoned that they won't care, and they're probably glad to have some peace from them, which worried me. Really hoping they at least shift them up the other end, if not warn them off this park completely due to its dodginess..

It benefits them not to piss off the local residents.

Just get in touch with the school - I work in a language school and we go to great lengths to ensure kids don’t create a nuisance to locals. If we are informed of anything like this we just have a chat with them and sort it.

It’s probably something they’re used to doing very safely in their home countries, we’re the only ones that lock up and expect quiet by 10, so they are probably oblivious to the fact it’s annoying.

Surprised by how late they’re out though - let the school know as they may be bending their curfew!

Have you asked the teens to move somewhere else and be quiet? They’re probably being thoughtless in the way teens often are but if you ask them to move away from the houses or to keep the noise down there’s every chance they’ll listen.

I havent asked them tbh. Maybe I should have done that first. I guess I'm just too used to the local ruffians usually out there who would make it their mission to ruin your life if you even raise an eyebrow at them I don't want to get them in trouble and said how well behaved they were. Hopefully the email will sort it.