Family think I'm bad for leaving child at school 10mins before door opens

[pointbla]

I take my year 4 child early 10 mins before the school doors open and leave him there. I have another child to take to another school. He's 9 , I see no problem with it , other children are there too. Also, I don't regularly do that just occasionally.
My family seem to think this is very bad and I am putting my child at risk as the kids mess about. AIBU?

Ffs!

Op.has another child she takes on to another school after dropping ds off.

What's so difficult about that to understand?

Willow2017

Thank you, I have mastered that bit. It’s in the OP.

@herculepoirot2 you have answered your own question . Bye

That doesn’t even make sense. 😂

@herculepoirot2 everyone on this thread have been very mature and even if they didn't agree they have stated the reason and left it at that. You have just been here to stir up trouble . Obviously you are one of those people who can't just agree to disagree. There's always one. Oh well

“Bye” wasn’t as mature as you think, OP.

I just think I have asked you a couple of simple questions. That’s all. But it doesn’t matter. The fact that you won’t answer and would prefer to go back forth to no purpose makes my point for me.

@herculepoirot2 bye! 😂

And there we are. Rather than just come out with the truth, you want to come back and be snippy about it. You know your behaviour is cheeky and that’s why you have nothing else to say.

@pointbla
I think you and everyone else has the measure of Hercule
Anyway, good luck next year OP, hope you enjoy the summer break.

At ds's school parents were asked at the beginning of Y3 to sign a letter giving permission for their dc to walk to and from school alone. We didn't sign because we live 10 miles from the school - but my point is that the school/ parents are in many cases happy with their dc walking to school regularly alone - at 7/8 years old.

9 is certainly fine, in most cases, to drop a child in a school playground with other children and adults present for 10 mins before school. Depends on the child of course, but I'd be fine with ds doing that - he's sensible and invariably runs off to join his friends as soon as we get there anyway, leaving me redundant!

Thank you, I have mastered that bit. It’s in the OP.

Then you have answered the question like OP said. She is going
that way anyway why should she make her ds walk it? You don't know how far she lives from school so walking could be a non starter.

You surely aren't that dense you are just arguing for the sake of it. Attention seeking nonsense.

Willow2017

The OP is clearly being evasive. You obviously feel the need to invent justifications for her.

Nope just repeating what op said which makes it pretty damm clear why she drops her ds off.

But you feel the need to keep at it like a dog with a bone just for your own satisfaction.

You do realise op doesnt have to answer anything you ask her dont you? It's really none of your business why her child doesnt walk to school (apart from the bleeding obvious that she has 2 kids to get to school in different places so takes them both)
Ffs leave it and realise the thread world doesnt revolve around you.

Willow2017

I absolutely realise she doesn’t have to. But obviously people can read whatever they like into her refusal. And I am doing. You can keep throwing insults, but it doesn’t change the fact that when someone refuses to answer simple questions, there is usually a reason.

@Whatafustercluck
That's really sweet post and is another example of variety of sensible arrangements that many schools make. Lots of pp said the same earlier , as also did a number PPs whose schools expect pupils to be 5-10+ mins early before door opens and waiting ready (on or off school grounds) for the short time for doors are open between. (Our KS2 -like a proportion of schools- don't go through playground but wait in public area outside school as don't access through playground, unless KS1 with different rules and gates that open 10 mins early). Funnily enough the %KS2 pupils that willfully break their legs in 10 mins whilst chatting with friends is zero.

Our school even has an additional park and drop off which is 7 mins walk from school for KS2 pupils and has to be done in stages for the quantity of cars that need to access it in a no through residential area. No teacher supervising.. As school correctly assumes they are sensible pupils developing independence in a safe way.

I'm pretty sure that the borough councilors and senior educational leaders who commissioned it, don't feel that they themselves are CFs (!!) despite a minority of dogmatic PPs claiming on this thread that everyone must be (to not have parental handholding up to very second they give hand of pupil to a teacher).

I despair of MNers that can't say an opinion without berating people who diasgree, when they have different experiences and arrangements

@Willow2017. 🤩😂😂
Bless you for trying. A number of PPs have said same to hercule throughout this thread. There is something 'off' that s/he hasn't self reflected.

but it doesn’t change the fact that when someone refuses to answer simple questions, there is usually a reason.

None of your damm business is a really good reason to me.

Willow2017

Again, the OP is free to refuse to answer questions on whatever basis she likes. But I will draw my own conclusions.

So draw them and stop asking the same bloody thing over and over!

I stopped asking a while ago. You seem frustrated by the fact that I am still replying to you. There is a way to correct that... You could stop posting?

If there are other kids there too I wouldn’t worry 👍🏻

Christ, is this debate still going on??

This thread needs putting to sleep now. Even the OP is bored shitless.

It's been kept going by someone that is bullying and bless them, pp are trying.
Thread was answered and done.
For whatever reason a single poster has a bee in their bonnet and I suspect is either not of bald hands or they are transferring their issues onto OP. Which simply don't apply.

I actually feel a bit sorry for him/her if she's stuck but perhaps more sorry for children & people that may be around her. After so much patience from others

WillLokireturn

The only people “keeping this going” are you and your cronies.

Let me rephrase that

It's been kept going by someone that is bullying and bless them, pp are trying.
Thread was answered and done.
For whatever reason a single poster has a bee in their bonnet and I suspect is either ((enjoying contraversey) or they are transferring their issues onto OP. Which simply don't apply.
I actually feel a bit sorry for him/her if she's stuck but perhaps more sorry for children & people that may be around her. After so much patience from others

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