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.

@SpringTides5 - maybe you can share your address, and we can all take turns coming to stand in your garden/park over your drive?
It’s appalling behaviour, and if never consider doing it near a school/hospital/shop/park. It shows a level of entitlement I’m constantly staggered by.

@SpringTides5

Tbh I sometimes wonder what people who buy houses right next to schools actually expect.

It’s not exactly a secret that lots of parents will gather at pick up and drop off. Some will need to park in a way that’s not ideal simply due to lack of space. Perhaps they’ll have to block a drive.

Others will stand in or black private property. Particularly at the moment when playgrounds are often closed to parents.

Tbh the two choices are accept that there will be activity at pick up and drop off or move house.

Most parents wouldn’t though, only the pig ignorant dickheads. Agree with a fence and a note to the school. The school near me have always been very proactive in dealing with lazy entitled behaviour, and have a good relationship with the neighbours.

Definitely sprinklers on a timer!

@Daisymaybe60

There's nothing new under the sun. Way back in the 1980s, when I was doing the school run, I witnessed a local resident politely asking a driver not to park across her driveway as she needed to get her car out.

The response was that in entitled mum's opinion, all those "little houses" should be razed to the ground to make a carpark for the school. Said little houses were very nice three bedroomed semis, but obviously not up to the standard of entitled mum's residence, a gruelling five minute walk up the road.

Happened to a friend of mine, almost exactly the conversation. A quick phone call to a couple of friends with scruffy Land Rovers sorted it, one in front, one behind. She was stuck there for three hours.

@SpringTides5

Frankly OP I think you need to ask yourself whether it is worth getting so worked up over this. You seem to be getting yourself into a right lather with the standing at your window watching etc

Personally I would back away from the whole issue. Are the parents actually causing any issue by standing on ground that is technically your garden for a few minutes each day?

It's certainly not worth getting into confrontations with the school and parents imo.

I like to have a nice lawn.

People congregating on it every day will bugger it up.

That said, I'd be happy to tell people to GTFO my lawn.

Those of you who say why buy a house near a school, quite often the houses were there first.

@Somanysocks

Those of you who say why buy a house near a school, quite often the houses were there first.

This^

I’ve lived in this house for over thirty years. When I bought the house there was a small primary school up the road, it was 2 form entry and it was unusual for the children to be driven to school.

The site has expanded in the last 10 years. It is now a three form entry primary and a MASSIVE secondary school with 200 children per year. I’ve actually had parents park ON MY DRIVE!

The school I work in was built 15 years ago, the surrounding houses have been there since the later 60s.

Yanbu bloody hell who sits around in random front gardens! I wonder if people with enough brass neck to do this in the first place would listen to a polite request from the school though.id just buy a remote control sprinkler personally (but I'm in a bad mood).

I can't believe the idiots saying why buy a house near a to school.are you morons? Yes you might expect traffic and kid noise near a school you shouldn't expect people parking like twats or sitting in your bloody front garden!

What fence did you get OP?

No fence means people can easily take it to be the pavement/a verge/etc . A clear boundary will keep most adults away. Kids are another matter of course.

The dirty lookers probably thought you were a parent driving where everyone's been told not to.