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?

A child was run over in a local school by someone doing this.

OP, let’s hope some random child understands the manoeuvre and doesn’t end up under your wheels 👍🏻

This is a joke, right?

Ah, fuckwit from fuckwit city.
At dds school, despite the school being in the town centre, next to a huge carpark which is free a child was run over by a parent trying to reverse by the school gates because they didn't want to queue for the car park.
Fuckwit.

Ok so to answer some of your questions;

All the other parents do this, it is literally a queue of cars waiting to turn around to avoid carrying on towards the main school gate where busses are dropping off.

The school is about two miles up a straight road full of high school children walking and cycling to the school. No side roads to drop off or turn around.

I really am a very considerate driver, would never block drives, stop on yellow lines or zebra crossings. I just don’t know what the safe alternative is.

How far from the school do you live, OP?

Could you join the ones cycling to school?

And how far from the bus stop for all these buses you mention?

It's simple. If the school say don't do it, don't do it.

Just...don't be a dick. It's really quite simple when you try!

Ah I remember the oldie days when high school aged children were too embarrassed to have their parent drop them off any where near the school gates!

Live 6 miles away, must be lovely to live so near your school.

No buses from our very rural location.

I work from home, where else m I supposed to go?

Maybe the school think you should go on to the area where the buses are as that way it’s clear it’s an area with traffic and that risk can be managed, and the back gate is clear of traffic. Keeps the risky area to one place.

So why can’t you drop off along the final half mile of this straight road?

So the school is down a 2 mile dead end? You can’t drive past it?
You can’t drop your daughter and just drive past? Then drop her at the end of the 2 mile road and she can walk that, as you say it is full of kids walking and cycling.

6 miles is obviously too far to walk. Our local school has an agreement with a nearby carpark - free for parents to use at school drop off and pick up times. Do your school have a similar thing?

Over-entitlement at its finest. 😂

I’d still need to turn my car around to go back home.

Other kids can walk and cycle a two mile road, but yours can’t? My Y7 walks 1.5miles each way to school.

So you could carry on to the end of the road and take a circular route home?

It's just further out of your way then turning around and going back?

Op if the nearest state primary is 6 miles away from your home your DC should be entitled to school transport so you should not need to drive.

If you chose a school 6 miles away that is private/not your closest school and doesn't have suitable parking within walking distance, more fool you. The world doesn't revolve around you. Primary schools are generally set up on the basis that most people can walk or cycle there.

I could actually drive in as it is a through road to other businesses.

I don’t know why you posted on AIBU, everyone has told you that you are, yet you still won’t accept it!
Maybe post on a thread entitled ‘Please tell me what I want to hear’.

Just because ‘all the other parents do this’ (which they clearly don’t) doesn’t make it right. Would you be understanding if one of these other parents hit your child with their car? I think not.

OK this is definitely a piss take 😂

Is this a reverse?