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?

"This can’t be serious…"

Especially with including driving home afterwards for good measure.

I suppose you could just carry on and squash some bystanders, which in turn would solve the problem of the school run being so busy and congested...

Or just park up somewhere appropriate and walk.

Your DD is in year 11 too…

not a chance this is legit @NortonBuns

There's this thing called "walking." 🙄

Of course the sign doesn't mean you! You're special!

This is a very good point. I suppose, however, that it may cause congestion (everyone would want to use the drop off zone at the same time). And dropping off is easy, but what about the reverse (pick up), which tends to take much longer and requires the car to be parked for longer... it would take up a lot of space (taken from where - a playground?) to facilitate a car park for enough cars and I can see why it's not considered worth it... It's a real problem these days, however, with people often living much further away from their children's school than in previous decades (when the schools were built).

Having said that, I've noticed that modern purpose built schools do tend to have a large parking area available, which does seem sensible.

My child's school is in the middle of a small town and we're all issued with parking permits for a local long stay car park which are valid for a 20 minute window at drop off and pick up time, which I think is great, but obviously doesn't/couldn't work everywhere!

This has got to be a reverse, surely.

@Marchsunshine Or a wind em up and watch em go argh!

waits for OP to come back from the school rat run.

Walk?

Walk. Talk about an entitled first world pile of crap

I am struggling to believe this post is serious. I cannot understand how anyone can be lacking in self awareness to this extent.

Carry on until you come to a safer place to turn round. Past the back gate, past the front gate, well away from the school altogether.

Obviously.

Unless your school is in cul de sac on which case park further away , don't enter the cul de sac and WALK.

Dear oh dear. What is the MATTER with car drivers?

I must share an ingenious solution that I discovered when I did school drop offs and pick ups. I used the pay and display car park and walked up to the school and back. HTH

You’re quite right - stick to your guns. Who cares if you kill or maim a few children as long as your own are okay. Honestly - some schools are so unreasonable. I feel for you.

Unless your DC is physically disabled there is absolutely no reason why you need to stop in front of the school gates.
You wouldn't like it if your DC was in a school building and it was on fire and the emergency services couldn't get on site because some numpty had blocked their access.
So let your DC walk !

You have several options.

1. You leave earlier, park and walk a short distance.
2. You drive further along and turn where is safe.
3. You carry on and risk hurting someone. The fact you have even asked suggests you know the answer to this question OP!

Urgh, I hate people like you. I live very close to a school and every day the street is full of cheeky fuckers in a race to get as close as humanly possible to the school gate because god forbid their child has to use their legs and walk.

Unless we're going to get an epic drip feed about how you're actually disabled and can't walk, or that your child is in a wheelchair or something, just part further away and fucking walk.

Lazy ,selfish, and ignorant, probably a reverse though. If true a truly selfish cow.

You ignorant so and so. You stop somewhere, walk your child to school then you walk back to your car (If you have to even drive). What kind of person comes on MN and asks if she should ignore a school telling you not to turn/park/drive somewhere.

I live five miles from my children's primary school, which is in a large village. The school has an arrangement with a pub about five minutes' walk from the school that parents can use their car park for school drop offs and pick ups and I use this car park every time. The car park is never full. The tiny cul de sac where the entrance to the school is, on the other hand, is always rammed with illegally parked vehicles blocking people's drives and performing dangerous manouvres while parents and their children are trying to walk past. I can imagine where the OP would be if her kids came to our school.
I despair, I really do.

Can you let child out even further away from school?

You drive further and find a different route to take you back the way you need to be going. Not difficult.
The back gate is there for all sorts of reasons including emergencies. Stop using it

Get away 😂

Stop doing it and drop your child off a couple of streets away. That's what I used to do.