AIBU to continue turning in the school gate?

[NortonBuns]

I drive my dd to school everyday and once I drop her off I turn around and drive home. I approach the back gate of the school and use this entrance to turn my car round so I can head back home.
The school have now put up a sign saying keep our children safe, no stopping, dropping off or turning in the entrance.
So where am I supposed to turn around? If I carry on I reach the front gate which is busier and has the busses. If I turn before I reach the back entrance I am doing a three point turn in busy school run traffic with lots of children walking and cycling.
So AIBU to say I am safest turning in the large double gate and ignoring the new sign?

Oh hang on - so you can continue past the front gate to get somewhere else? Presumably at some point there is then a turning you can use to turn round or you can circle back on yourself.

In that case you do that!

The obvious solution is to adhere to what the school asks.
Therefore, you just continue past the front gate (with the relevant traffic) until you come to another junction that allows you to turn left or right and loop back on yourself.

This may take a bit longer but it is what is being asked by the school is it not?

It may also be best to show your child that you follow the rules that are being asked of you as in life your child will come across many things that are inconvenient but necessary to adhere to.

Why is the OP walking anywhere? Her high school aged child doesn’t need handing over to teachers at the door!

drop the child off about a mile away and let them walk in

Ah sorry missed they were high school aged. I had assumed primary as parents didn’t really take to my high school. In that case agree no reason why they can’t get dropped off further away and walk.

😂Seriously

Your legs don't work and your child's legs don't work and you can't find an alternative place to turn so yeah you are special and the sign is for everyone else and you aren't part of the problem.

Without seeing a better more detailed plan this is impossible to envisage exactly the problem. But, surely this is an issue the school should be addressing and instructing parents places to go and do the drop. Near my children’s primary school we had school streets put in so parents could not drive to outside the school at all without being fined. The school pointed out various places where the children could be safely dropped off and walk the last few hundred metres.

The school has a duty of care to look after your DD, and all other pupils. Park further away.

Selfish git.

We lived in the middle of nowhere, so my mum used to drive us to the nearest bus stop. Why can't you do that? If your kids are at secondary school they don't need handing over at the gate.

Please don’t run over a child.

Park further away, walk the last bit, stop being so lazy and so self-centred.

one kid locally got run over recently beacuse of this.

stop being a dick

I'm amazed that there are as many as 2% of people who don't think you're a selfish entitled idiot; even to ask the question is unbelievable. You shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, if you asked the question seriously...

So go the long way round!

Or park up and walk the last bit. Or drop your child and let them walk the last bit.

You know, how we all do WITHOUT BREAKING SCHOOL RULES OR ENDANGERING KIDS BY STOPPING/TURNING!!

The entitlement on you, honestly.

I get to the school 30/40 minutes before the gate opens each day as I’m disabled with an autistic son and need a parking space. I’m so sick and tired of entitled parents like you who think rules don’t apply. I watch many mums outside turn up late and do exactly what you’re doing or park on double yellow lines - this puts kids in danger. But your entitlement thinks that you can do this?

I got a taxi to the closest bus stop as I grew up in the middle of nowhere and the taxi was paid for.

OPs excuse of needing to drive due to living rurally doesn’t make sense if she hasn’t turned down a school place.

Yes, that’s our catchment school.
We’ve one just about cycling distance, out of borough and out of catchment.

Drop her off at a different time, when it's not as busy at the front gate?

Park around the corner and walk the last couple of streets to school.

your response to the new signage is really selfish!

You are a typical selfish entitled Karen who is probably a terrible mother, no doubt teaching your kids to only follow the rules they want to. Parents like you are everything that’s wrong with the country: it’s all about me, me, me.

YABVU, this is to keep children safe - from reversing cars for example. It never fails to surprise me the risks people take to drop their children right outside the school with. I thoughts to the safety of other children.

What a ridiculous question. You need to park a safe distance away and walk with your dc to the school. You will be doing the world and your dc a favour.

If you really have to drive her, drop off a street or so away and stay away from both gates. Preferably walk or bus there.

The school is at the end of a two mile
rosd that has no other roads leading off. For two miles?

two miles?

dont believe you