To put this under the windscreen wiper of cars parked where they should not near school!

[Jaynerae]

Infant school is at the top of a tiny road only four houses long. It comes of a road that is residential and very long becasue it is circular. The school has for years been sending out notes asking people dropping children off not to park in the tiny road. The school has an agreement with the pub at the top of the road that parents can park in their car park and walk down to school.

There is a problem - school has provided solution.

So why do some parents think that they have the right to put my child and every one else at risk becasue they couldn't be bothered to leave early enough to walk the five minutes rom the pub car park.

If cars are parked in this tiny road - fire engines and emergency services can not reach the school.

I have watched this go on for years - and today witnessed four cars in theis tiny road - two parked opposite each other and even the other two could not then get out! So no way would an emergency vehicle get through.

I think the message needs to driven home hard hitting - than polite but firm messages from school.

Would IBU to put the following print out, that I have made up on any offending cards?

I wish Head teavcher would send it to parents but I bet she wouldn't in case children saw it.
I?m sorry Mummy.

Sorry that they didn?t care enough about me to take note of the warnings.
Sorry that they didn?t care enough about their own children to listen.
Sorry that they didn?t think that there would ever be a real danger.

I?m sorry Mummy

That you can?t hear me talk to you anymore
That you can?t feel my arms wrapped around you anymore
That you can?t feel my wet kiss on your cheeks

Why Mummy?

Didn?t they listen?
Didn?t they read?
Didn?t they care?

They Tried Mummy.

The firemen tried to get us out Mummy
They heard us screaming Mummy
They heard us calling for you Mummy

But they couldn?t

They couldn?t reach us Mummy
They couldn?t help us Mummy
They wanted to so badly Mummy

Do you know why they couldn?t Mummy

Because there were people who parked where they shouldn?t have Mummy
The fire engine couldn?t get passed Mummy
The cars were in the way Mummy

We died Mummy.

Sorry- moron at work!

Mummy's sitting around watching Jeremy Kyle in her pyjamas.

Having dropped the kids off at school in them.

god that would make me vomit

PMSL too. Ha. (If I'm honest, I prefer Maury. Love watching random Americans not know who their baby daddy is ).

Twiglett, Jeremy Kyle? If a Labour Gov want his help then surely you can't mean him?

pmsl at 2shows and LB and lynettescavo

PMSL Littlebella

Maury is crazy has some well strange people on there lol lol

lol at I would have reported them to themselves but it wasn;t invented

reads thread and LOLs ... suzywong particularly amusant

to the person that asked about 10.30 - 11.30 parking restrictions

We have that near stations in our towns, it's to stop commuters parking up all day - after morning rush hour

DS's school has double yellow lines, occasional patrolling, regular reminder by the HT in the newsletter. Makes not a jot of difference, too many idiotic parents.

Maybe the cars don't belong to parents dropping the kids off at school. Maybe they belong to drink-drivers who are furious that the pub carpark is full so early in the morning!

wotulookinat pmsl

If there really is a problem with restricting access to the school grounds in the case of an emergency then surely the local authority should be painting zig-zags on the road outside.

I have never seen a school round here which doesn't have yellow zig zags outside in the road near the entrance.

Having said that, some parents still ignore this but at least someone would be justified in telling them it is not acceptable.

You're not being unreasonable to be cross.
You're not being unreasonable to want to put a note out.
You are being VERY unreasonable to subject us to that CRAP 'poem'. It's shit.

In our situation it's not only emergency access for the school but also residents. Where we live there's a drive to a few blocks of flats. The school is OK with the zig-zags, but what about the others? It's almost impossible to get in our out of the drive when the cars are parked on double lines close to the corners, there's zero visibility into the street. It's not just 10-15 minutes a day, it's in the morning, at morning nursery pick-up, afternoon nursery drop-off, school pick-up. It adds up to quite a few times a day when there's limited access for residents or emergency vehicles or even just those mobility mini-buses.

i agree completey with the issues but it doesn't stop the op being mad as a hatter.

YABU - that's horrible, and would make the offending parkers think you were a wierd nutter (you're not, are you ).

But do put a note - not that one. Put something like, "if I see your parked here again putting the safety of my children and the others in the school in danger, I will knife you're tyres and key your side panels. MOVE IT you inconsiderable bastard".

I have a feeling that would have a greater effect.

Nah, they would pass the note on to the police and the OP would be arrested...

My car IS a giant wheelchair I park right outside the school (dead end, no zig zags or yellow lines btw) because I can't walk any further and I have to wait in the car until I see the kids, then get them. The school's put up big no parking and no turning signs but I have to ignore them because I wouldn't be able to collect my kids if I had to park around the corner. they can't walk to me because they wouldn't be safe (autism - run - mother who can't catch them )

I don't feel inclined to share this info with the other parents. I am fairly sure some of them think I'm selfish and stupid Perhaps there are circumstances folks are not aware of in some cases.

riven, you are obviously right, i get irratated when I can't get my buugy past cars and I think of you and how hard it must be. writing a poem from a dead child because you are irratated by parking problems is however really really weird.

oh, but I do arrive half an hour early so I am parked and waiting well before anyone else arrives, and I wait until everyone has gone before driving off.