To take my kids out of school 15 mins early once a week?

[AnabelleClarabelle]

I have primary age DC at separate schools (not through choice).

Dc1’s school finishes later on one day due to off site swimming and p.e. This means they need collecting 15 mins after other DC on that day and the schools are 20 mins apart (we are rural).

Younger DC school has no parent on site parking, just a staff car park. I have a 7-10 min walk from their school to my car.

I spoke to the office lady in the summer and she said she ‘couldn’t see a problem’ with me driving up to the staff car park one day a week to enable me to only be 5 mins late for DC1.

The school business manager has just come and told me the car park is no parking for parents etc. Explained situation and she huffily said she would check with office lady but that she ‘didn’t believe that to be the case’ - implying I’m lying?

I’m now feeling anxious about the whole thing.

I have no one who can collect Dc1 on that day so my only other option if I can’t park on site is to collect younger DC 15 mins early on that day so I can get to Dc1 on time.

So WIBU to say I will be collecting th early once a week if they will no longer let me park in the staff car park that day?

Yes but the only reason I mentioned them in the first place is to see if the OP had any of these clubs available to her. I know they're not childcare but we're kidding ourselves if we think some people don't use them as such.

Rockbird
Too true.
I'm in secondary and one of my former colleagues received a complaint that she cancelled her GCSE revision session one week. Apparently they should have given more than 48h notice because the parent is busy.

Every so often on MN there's a thread where a poster is angry on AIBU about enrichment clubs and how they're stuck for childcare because the selfish teacher has decided to stop running football/art club after school and they work but shouldn't have to pay for the wraparound care as they only need the care til 4:45pm and the session runs til 6pm. Their previous plan was to have the child in a club 3:30-4:30 and then turn up to collect 15 minutes late as the child can just sit by the office/with a teacher.

Yep, snap. We've had a couple of people just not turn up for their children. You can tell when you chase the parent that they knew fine well the club was cancelled.

Not RTFT but can you withdraw permission for DC1s activity so they finish at normal time?

I would simply stick to parking in the car park,even if they tell you not to. How are they going to enforce it? Shes a business manager, not an effing traffic warden. She can't get you clamped for it, as its not yellow lines, and your vehicle is taxed and mot'd. Getting yourself into a flap because some random employee had a word with you. I would just smile, nod and continue doing as you are.

I would simply stick to parking in the car park,even if they tell you not to. How are they going to enforce it? Shes a business manager, not an effing traffic warden.

Traffic wardens operate in public areas. The school’s premises are not a public place. Therefore the school can absolutely decide who parks in their staff car park. You’d have to be a massive twat to think you could still park there after being told you can’t.

I would simply stick to parking in the car park,even if they tell you not to

Who cares if staff for wraparound care can't park in the staff car park, or the cleaners, or staff from other schools who have off site meetings, or parents with meetings with the head can't get parked? As long as the self-appointed very important parents park in a way that suits them that's all that matters.

Thankfully the OP, like most parents, doesn't have this attitude.

If someone was rude enough to keep parking in the car park then I would hope a staff member would do what often ends up happening in a school car park and block them in. And then be hard to find until school had finished...

I would simply stick to parking in the car park,even if they tell you not to

That can't possibly be a serious post can it? No one is so deluded that they think it's fine to park somewhere you've specifically been told not to do they? Although MN does seem to attract the selfish and entitled CF so maybe you would really do that.