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.

Lawn sprinkler set to come on at specific times should do the trick 😉

As well as speaking to parents direct it's worth letting the school know. For all you know the school may be considering making this permanent eg if it helps with congestion at the other entrance

This is the most clear cut case of YANBU I've ever seen!! I would have 100% already have contacted the Head. I wonder if they will continue to use this gate in September once the COVID restrictions are (hopefully) lifted? Hopefully, this will only be a short term thing. Even so - very annoying. Good luck with it all.

I live right opposite a school and people used sit on my garden wall. We have planted holly inside the wall to stop this. Luckily their are double yellow lines right round our houses and traffic wardens turn up few times a week.

We used to live right near a hospital and this was far worse as the staff would park their cars at 7 am in the morning and not return to it until after 7 pm. They would park really badly and make it difficult for residents to get on their drives.

At least school is only drop off and pick up and everyone has gone by 3-30. No weekends and 13 weeks holiday per year.

Because of course teachers have nothing better to do with their time when the school day ends.

I’d. helpfully tell the grass sitters that a local dog uses that patch as his convenience and to make sure they wash their hands very carefully when they get home

If the gate is locked at night, superglue it.

Don’t understand why this talk of talking to the school as a way to fix this?

Why not actually tell the people standing on your lawn to get the fuck off it?

With expletives if necessary! :)

But deffo get timed sprinklers

Just tell them to "get the fuck out of your garden" and if they dont turn the hose on them.

Put a sign on the lawn saying it is private property.
Approach anyone standing on your lawn or driveway and explain it’s private property not school property and ask them to move.
Repeat until message gets through or put up small fence.
Last resort, take photos of anyone on your property and send to school

@lagerandblack

Just tell them to "get the fuck out of your garden" and if they dont turn the hose on them.

Or you could just ask, like a normal person.

@LILLYPRINT

If the gate is locked at night, superglue it.

Fantastic. Antagonise the school whose help you need. 🙄

@Iamnotthe1

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.

Agree 100% in theory, but what happens if he kicks off or calls her snobby cow? He's already shown he's a little unaware, to put it kindly.

Oh this is ridiculous. I would have said something to the man. How rude. YADNBU. I would mention to the HT but it might not have any impact. Could you put a fence/more plants and a sign?

I love the photo idea! @paddingtonthebear

Your grass needs sprinklers that come on at drop off and pick up time now the weather is getting nicer!

@JudgeJ

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

I can just see it; 60 kids on her lawn patting the dog ...

School run mums (and dads) are the worst. We live on the same street as a primary and a high school although the primary parents are far worse. they park out the top of the drive on the pavement which makes getting out of our house impossible to view the traffic, they reverse down the top of the drive and sit with their engine idling, they park at the top over the entrance so we can’t get in or out and they have even come down the drive (it’s a private off the road drive shared with next door) and parked at the bottom and boldly walked up to the school to collect.

If you challenge them, in 90% of cases you get abuse.

One guy reversed down the drive and sat there, so I got in the car and drove up behind him and had to toot to get his attention. the cheeky twat then just pulled far enough onto the pavement, blocking 100s of school leavers from walking down it and sat waiting for me to leave so he could reverse back down.

I didn’t leave, I got out my car and left it at the top of the drive so he couldn’t come back down.

It’s a weekly thing, not once a flood and it gets you OP, you have my sympathy. I’ve complained to the school and they are apologetic and issue a school memo which is effective for about a week then it starts again.

Do it! I live beside a school and was absolutely sick of parents and their attitudes. They were parking over my drive constantly blocking me in or out and we’re really rude if I asked them to move so I could get out. One actually swore at me in front of my daughter. I contacted the school about it several times

Definitely report to the school - they should remind parents this is private property - Very thoughtless !

I'd channel my inner Margot Leadbetter and tell them they are on private property and to kindly remove themselves immediately and if that doesn't work, shout Jerry, Jerry, let the dogs out.

Seriously people sat on your front lawn? If that’s true then I’d imagine that the boundaries are not clear.

Yeah put a fence up be call the school- ridiculous!!

Toomuchtrouble4me

Seriously people sat on your front lawn? If that’s true then I’d imagine that the boundaries are not clear.“

We were waterfront in Cornwall. People sat on our lawn all the time, some with their picnics, in spite of the private signs and clear boundary wall. There are CFs everywhere.