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

Air con/ heater/ charging phone.

It’s probably due to staggered starts. My children start school (at the same school) 30 mins apart. It’s very annoying. Hopefully it will get better in September.

Anyone sitting with the engine idling is a shit. There's no excuse for it, unless maybe finishing off a call on a car phone.

I do tend to get to school pickup anything up to 20-25 minutes before finishing time, because there are only two disabled bays, and if you're not sharp, they'll be taken over by non badge holders 🙄 I don't idle the engine though. If its hot, open the windows, if it's cold, take a blanket.

@Winchwood

Air con/ heater/ charging phone.

Windows/blanket/portable charger.

At a school (not her own) I take DD to for an after-school activity the two side-roads from which the school gate can be accessed now have entry restrictions, residents only from 8.30am to 9.30am and 3pm to 4pm. Any other car driving into the roads is photographed and fined.

People who sit with their engines idling are antisocial fuckwits, whether they're dropping kids off at school or not.

Have a word with the school. They should crack down hard on that, most schools would.

*Air con/ heater/ charging phone.

Windows/blanket/portable charger.*

My brain just read this to the tune of ‘big fish, little fish, cardboard box’ ☺️

You would be amazed how little distance some people are prepared to walk. These could be people who live round the corner, but arrive at 8am because they don’t want to walk to school and if they arrive at 8.15 they will have to walk slightly further away and walk a couple of hundred metres and will do almost anything to avoid this.

The other reason people do this is because they struggle with waiting on foot and being around people they don’t know well. In their cars, they feel safer and don’t have to speak with those they don’t know and can choose who to shout to. So being in the car is about avoiding social interaction.

These are people who have no consideration or really awareness of others. Running the engine for 45 mins outside your window…..it wouldn’t occur to them that it’s annoying or even if it it does, their right to do what suits them, in their mind trumps what might work for anyone else.

Lots of schools have these issues. They put notices it behind school bulletin with zero result. They send a deputy head out o to the street a couple of times, but perhaps a very short term of temporary result….but essentially these are public roads and people can park on them and run their engines if they choose to and there really isn’t anything anyone can do to stop it, apart from appealing to better judgement…..,but sadly that’s lacking.

In some areas, this parking thing is also a tribal thing. Some groups have their kids walking into school, for exercise and environmental reasons. Other groups drive round the corner to gather in car groups with their friends, so they can socialise by shouting across to each other. It is a form of social gathering and also passively resisting exercise and environmental issues and standing against the other parents who show an interest in this. It is a ‘2 fingers up’ to the PTA mummies with their healthy snacks and fund raising, and a way of indicating they can do what they like.

Sorry if if you are living near it. The only good thing is term is finished or about to end so you will be t a short break.

@brokenbiscuitsx

*Air con/ heater/ charging phone.

Windows/blanket/portable charger.*

My brain just read this to the tune of ‘big fish, little fish, cardboard box’ ☺️

Same 😂

@brokenbiscuitsx

*Air con/ heater/ charging phone.

Windows/blanket/portable charger.*

My brain just read this to the tune of ‘big fish, little fish, cardboard box’ ☺️

The important question is whether you also did the dance?

I’m guilty of getting to school early on the days I go drop off, I don’t leave the engine on though.

Older DC’s have to be at school for 8:10am and the youngest only at 8:50am rather. Both schools are 3+ miles away so rather than drop and go home then go back, we drop, go to the primary, park up and read together, then play Squeebles.

Bananas in tailpipes methinks.....

I live in London near two primary schools and a nursery. The nursery parents have always been quick in and out, however over the years the school parents have been a pain.

The only way to deal with them is to write to the schools then, due to being on a road with permit parking, write to the parking department of the council complaining about them not enforcing the parking permit restrictions.

A few parking tickets and one mother hitting a 6ft male parking attendant later, the parents now quickly drop off and pick up their kids. They are aware if they annoy any of us, a couple of us will write to the council again and they will have to fight for the 6 paid for spaces for most of the school year.

I work in primary and we often send reminders out about parking and engine fumes but those that do it are very unlikely to be the type to listen and change their behaviour. Just like their offspring.

it’s London so no one lives more than 10min away

Everyone in london only goes to their catchment school?

My brain just read this to the tune of ‘big fish, little fish, cardboard box’

Mine went to Trump reciting "person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV"

It’s bog standard not highly related primary school. No one who doesn’t live close will be communing to get here. Plenty better ones in area.

@Winchwood

Air con/ heater/ charging phone.

These all work for me when my ignition is in position 2. I don't actually need the engine running.

I feel your pain, OP. Idling engines are a major trigger for my misophonia. Talk to the school.

These all work for me when my ignition is in position 2. I don't actually need the engine running.

Good for you, but most ICE cars have A/C compressors driven by the engine and so require that to be running to provide A/C.

I used to live next door to a school and decided to feel sad for the mum's rather than annoyed. When standing in a playground is the high point of your day its pitiable.

It’s not in playground it’s on residential street (back exit to school) standing 3 metres from people’s front door and open windows

@Winchwood

Air con/ heater/ charging phone.

All of which are unacceptable reasons to break the law.

Charge phone at home.
Wear a coat.
Open the windows.