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’re back again, I can hear engines running. It’s early as it’s the last day of term, 6 weeks of bliss for me😀🍾

It's puzzling why so many people waste so many hours a week, but it will remain a mystery. How lazy can you get that you'd rather waste 1 hour a day instead of walking 3 minutes. (very few people who do that have any physical disability...)

Parking tickets for idling would help.

It will be because they are too lazy to walk and park further away. Every school has some of these people!

I told a woman in a big Discovery to stop running her engine the other week as its against the Highway code, it sounded like a bus and the fumes were awful. She said she was running it for the air con (this was before the heatwave in Scotland it was about 18 degrees max) but she had a window open!
We live just down from a big independent school and get a lot of entitled behaviour from certain types of parents.

I think you live on our road OP. Dead end road of terraced houses. Small rear entrance to school. Parents park up early, release their kids to shriek whilst waiting for gate to open

I think I would have to move

It's this bastard staggered start times. I took my niece and nephew to school a couple of weeks back. Nephew goes in at 20 to 9 then niece at 25 past. So I had to stand there and wait, no point walking home.

Another thing they do is put their phones on speaker phone through their car stereos and have long chats which can be heard loud and clear down the street. It's never anything scandalous or i wouldn't mind so much!

We are the same at our primary. People turning up an hour before finishing time. Sitting with engines on. It’s ridiculous. A lot of locals complain to the school and police. Most of them look like they need to sit their driving tests again as their driving and parking is appalling. Most of them are just pure lazy as they live within 15min walk from the school.