Parents standing on my front lawn

[Twizbe]

Trying to decide if I say something to the Head so thought I'd ask here first.

I live next to a 2 form entry junior school. Our house is the last of 3 down a single track private dead end road. The end of the road is a gate for the school. Our property boundaries the school.

When we moved in this gate was just emergency access / gardener access for the school. No kids used this entrance.

After covid the school use this gate for year 6. Since the schools went back after Xmas we have 60 kids using this gate morning and evening.

A few times now I've seen parents stood on our lawn or in sunny weather sat on it.

Today I came home and this bloke was stood almost at our front door playing with the leaves on a young tree in the lawn (it's about waist height)

He just gave me a dirty look at I turned my car into my drive.

AIBU to ask the school to remind parents that this is private property and not a place to sit / stand.

Yanbu, I would politely raise this with the school

Turn the hose on them

I mean, we need a diagram for sure.

But no, how rude of them. Tell the school.

YANBU, this would give me the rage. Could you put a fence up too?

Put up a fence. Or start watering at an inconvenient time.

I'm glad I'm not being silly about this. I am thinking about putting up a small picket fence type thing. Though it is very clear that it's our garden and not just part of the road.

Get a ring doorbell and tweet the school with the video every day. It'll embarrass them into sorting it out.

In my experience, schools never bother to sort things like this unless they get publicly shamed for it. Eventually they will have a teacher or someone at the gate to keep parents in check.

sprinklers, preferably motion sensor somehow

Of sprinklers! Can you set up a sprinkler and turn it on for 10 minutes around the school bell?

I'd have a timed sprinkler.....

I live opposite a school, Op, and feel your pain. To be in over 20 years I have only had to complain to the school once about parents' behaviour and it was taken seriously and dealt with.

“Get orf my laaand” usually works for me.

I can't understand why you didn't say anything at the time
I would have asked them to move then contacted the school to ask them to remind parents to be courteous and respect neighbours. If they continued I'd be out there taking photographs and kicking up a stink

Borrow a big dog and leave it on a long chain on your lawn.

@WhoNeedsaManOfTheWorld

I can't understand why you didn't say anything at the time I would have asked them to move then contacted the school to ask them to remind parents to be courteous and respect neighbours. If they continued I'd be out there taking photographs and kicking up a stink

I should have really. I had my 4 year old with me though and didn't want to make a scene.

1. Get a sprinkler

And

2. Can you erect some sort of chained post fencing at the end of your garden also? Or maybe plan to have them up by the start of the school year next year.

Sprinklers - has to be done set for just about the time they start turning up

OP, do you address this with the adults who are coming into your garden?

If you contact the school, I'm sure they will be happy to send a message or a reminder out to parents. However, I'm confused as to why the school need to take an additional role as the middle-man here when surely it's as simple as asking the adults on your property to leave your property.

I think it's going to have to be a fence of some sort.

We plan to landscape our front garden soon so will factor that into the design. Maybe I can do some cheaper planting or something just to make it clear in the mean time

I wouldn’t do sprinklers because the kids would want to play in it! Yanbu though OP definitely bring it up with the school and a fence isn’t a bad idea.

Yes. I live by a primary school and I frequently complain about parking over driveways etc. They get the PCSO to come round.

You've had people sit on your lawn on a sunny day and not said anything? By all means contact the school but next time you see anyone standing or sitting on your property go out and tell them to leave. Cheeky sods.

I should have really. I had my 4 year old with me though and didn't want to make a scene.

Sorry - cross-posted.

I really wouldn't see it as making a scene. I'd see it as a great example to your 4yo of someone who has boundaries and is willing to assert themselves when someone crosses them.

Definitely fence it, but make it something pointy that you can’t perch on.
And plant something spiky behind it 😉

@Iamnotthe1

OP, do you address this with the adults who are coming into your garden?

If you contact the school, I'm sure they will be happy to send a message or a reminder out to parents. However, I'm confused as to why the school need to take an additional role as the middle-man here when surely it's as simple as asking the adults on your property to leave your property.

Tbf I wasn't sure if I was being unreasonable and didn't want to make a scene.

Now I know I'm not being unreasonable I will ask anyone I see standing there to move.

Thankfully parking is not an issue as the school have always told parents to not park or drive onto our road.