I live in a road with a school

[Truffle55]

Apologies in advance for the rant and slightly long message…

I live in a road with a primary school at the end. I’ve lived here for 25 years and I totally understand that parents need to get their kids to school - I too, need to do the same.

But…

Recently the behaviour of the parents dropping off and picking up their DC has been, frankly awful.

I have come home from picking my DC up from school to find someone parked on my drive! And now, someone thinks it’s “ok” to park across the T-junction into the road. This means I have to drive around them and into cars coming out of the road (from dropping off/picking up DC) to get onto my driveway (assuming no one is “borrowing” it).

I do understand people need to take their kids to school, I have to do it too! But really? Why are they so inconsiderate? When I pick my DC up from school I park away from the school… and we have an agreed process if I’m not there due to not being able to park SAFELY (I do get that DC is at secondary school and its easier to do this).

However, the parking by my house is getting out of control - the person who parks across the junction lets the children get into the car - roadside…. This is just dangerous!?

I’m at the point now that I just push through the cars because I feel “I live there, and I have right of way” - but that makes me uncomfortable.

And, let’s not talk about the addition is of an ice cream van!

Anyway, I’m considering contacting the school or even the police to see if they can do anything - sadly, I really feel, it is an accident waiting to happen 😕

Speak to the school and suggest a ‘drive by’ drop off is implemented. My daughter’s school has a member of staff outside and cars drive along, line up and stop briefly in the road outside the gate and the staff member helps the kids out of the back of the car (if they’re not able to get out themselves) and they go straight into the school gate, no need for parents to park the cars up. They just drive straight off. It works a treat.

The reality a lot of parents could park 5/10 minutes from school and walk. Also often this would mean no difference in time once you factor in the traffic around actual school, however people are often stupid and lazy.

When DD was in primary if I had to drive I’d park on the main road on the way out of town, and walk there. Much easier/quicker than sitting nose to nose in cars outside the school gates.

They surveyed our local primary. 610 pupils. 370 cars (some more than one child)... 80 kids walk. But they take kids from all over town.

370 cars take up a lot of space.

No one works there it's literally country roads, there's no job to be had. The only jobs in the village are either working at the school or at the local corner shop so 99 percent of the village don't work here. We don't even have a post office it's a very small rural village on the outskirts of a small town.

I live there because I live in the house that I grew up in and it's local to my grandparents who are in their 80's and I help care for. When we forst moved here I had a job that was 100 percent home based and my husband had his own company but covid ended both of those job prospects as both companies went bankrupt and so we had to get new jobs but weren't in a financial position to move even if we had wanted to uproot our family.

I feel like working locally is something that may be the norm in bigger towns and cities but definitley not places like where I live, places like my village would be purely retired pensioners if you only lived where you work.