Waiting outside school for hour in morning

[Akire]

Why would you choose wait for hour outside school before it opens in residential road where everyone can hear every word, scream, shriek? From 8am we have cars @ vans outside our home engines running winter & summer (heating & aircon)
Fair enough at drop off times yes expect noise but not that early everyday.

Parents with kids standing at gate this is back entrance to school so literally 3 metres from peoples windows & doors.it’s London so no one lives more than 10min away, so not like it’s hour car drive and only way to get dropped off. AIBU tell them all to turn engines off and keep shrieking down till least 830?

YABU it’s totally necessary stand for hour outside someone’s home talking shouting with your kids everyday.

YANBU they should turn engines off and keep playground noises down till later

They should be encouraged to walk/cycle their kids to school

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And they are twats for leaving their engines running

Sometimes I have nothing on but no point going back home from say, shopping, so I sit and read a book outside school in a residential street. I never leave the engine running. That so bad for the environment. Can't understand that at all and it really annoys me. I don't do this with DS in the car as parking outside school isn't horrendous. I do like to get there early if the weather is wet as there are more cars there.

Don't get your situation though. Why don't they stay home if parking isn't bad.

Probably difficult to park if they get there too late. But yes have a word with the school and see if they can ask them to turn engines off while waiting (maybe that's for the aircon?) Or walk if possible. Nothing you can do about the noise, it's the same as living near a pub where you accept you'll get stragglers leaving late etc.

They’re about to break up

@RogueMnerHidesUnderABigHat

They’re about to break up

Yes but still shouldn't be running their engines for an hour outside a school

Writing to school in September just amplified now with windows open. Laughing we are part of an LTN low traffic neighbourhood but they just drive up to the dead end from either side of the planters instead of driving through the street.

Happens where I am too - I don't see it in the morning, but the two primary schools near me (infant/juniors) have staggered end times of 3.05 and 3.20.

People arrive in my road from 2.15 and often leave their engines running. The s word is overused, but they are selfish twits. And the way the catchments work, nobody lives more than a 15-20 minute walk away so lazy and stupid too.

Op I wonder if you are living in the same bit of SW London that I am in!

I live opposite a school. For the last year our road has been shut off to vehicles other than residents for an hour in the morning and the afternoon. It's a pain, but a different kind of pain to you. I would phone the school today and explain your concerns.

It's a fine line as you chose to live near to a school, as did I. However there parents and residents do need to treat each other with respect.

I have only complained once to the school in 20 years and that was when a group of parents stood outside our house for over 90 minutes screeching about penis size 😬

If it’s in the mornings, is it that the school are running some kind of breakfast club or booster groups before the start of the school day? Or a badly designed staggered start system? If you have to drop off one child at 8am and their sibling(s) at 8.45am, not many people would do the school run twice.
Leaving engines running when cars are stationary is never okay though, particularly near houses or schools.

No before school clubs same people are there from 8-850 it’s so strange

It’s illegal to have your car engine running when parked, unless you’re in a traffic jam.

They are twats.

I guess they’re probably there to get a parking space?? I’ve often driven to school pickup 40 mins early as otherwise nowhere to park. I get out and go for a walk though don’t sit in my car like a twat.

Probably difficult to park if they get there too late.

This. I can't walk too far at the moment so tend to arrive for pickup time v early and just sit in the car with a book (engine off). Harder to imagine why you'd do it in the morning with kids in the car, unless there's some convoluted routine involving eating breakfast in the car while waiting?

The kids all sit on low walls outside houses who have tiny gardens. Honestly some people have no sense of themselves.

I think some ex partners maybe pick their kids up out door from mums at 750. She doesn’t want him waiting in the family home so instead of sitting outside their house they sit outside the school. Only thing I can think
Of!

At the schools here it’s always the same pricks that park on the yellow zig zags.

Talk to the school, not the parents.

Dds school repeatedly has complaints from.local residents about the that's parking.

They had to install railings outside the gates after a kid got knocked over on the pavement by someone's car door as they jumped out the car stopping on the zig zags

I have to drive as the school is 4 miles away. But I still walk further than some of the locals do as I use the local.park to park. We are allowed to park there to drop off and pick up. Is a short walk from the school.

Still.theyd rather sit fir an hour outside the school instead.

Some.even leave their cars there all day akd then just drive back when they pick up the kids .

I swear for someone of them it must take longer to pack.all the.kids and crap into the car , strap them.all in and try and get down that road to park, than it would be to just walk.

It seems.fine that buggies are forced into the road or have to be carried by strangers over grass verges so no one has ti walk nore than 6 feet.

Take down registration numbers, report every single one to the council. With video if you can do so without putting yourself at risk.

I work in various schools (secondary) and amazed at the number of parents who park up to an hour before for a ‘good space’.

There is a sign on the lamppost outside our house saying not to leave car engines idling. People sit right under it waiting for their kids with the engine running, sometimes for 10/15 mins.

You would have thought that parents of young children would be more concerned about the environment.

Engine on and noise is not acceptable.

We arrive very early in the morning though as I have an earlier drop off on the way. So rather than going all the way home and creating extra car journeys we drive straight onto school and wait.

Send an email to your council. Most councils have a no idling clean air campaign, and if not they should have one.

Also write to the school.

Also ask a PCSO to come and monitor. Regularly.

I assume the engine running is to keep the air con going.

An hour is too much especially if they are also creating noise. Do they do it in the winter or when it's pouring with rain?