School children dropping litter along my street, should I write to the head?

[northerner]

I moved into my new house about 4 weeks ago and it's great, apart from one issue. The local secondary school kids use our street as a cshort cut to school, no problem with that, but they all go to the local shop first for their breakfast I think, so as they walk along our street they drop their rubbish as they go. Most of it ends up in our front garden. Crisp packets, milkshake bottles, chocolate bar wrappers etc. This morning I picked up 8 bits of litter from my front garden and 11 on the path outside

Dh did shout at some yesterday and they basically gave him the finger.

Should I write to the school, saying how annoyed I am?

Get writing, I live between 2 schools and have phoned them in the past to complain. I'm sure I can't be the only one because a streetsweeper has suddenly started coming down our street every week day after school. Hooray. Although that will probably increase our council tax by another 2%

Northerner, we could be living in a similar area, no really you should complain now as it takes months/years for the Head of Secondary to to anything about it was in my case anyway, let me put you in the picture, Dp and I moved to our new house 5yrs ago come December, we live on route to a secondary school and we live around the corner from a bakers, chinese and chip shop which are all open at lunchtime to serve the kids and after a few months of living in our new house in a fantastic area our front lawn was covered in chip shop wrappers splattered with tomato ketchup, not to mention the sweet and sour chicken and sausage rolls, fair enough I do like the odd chinese etc but to have a garden full of the stuff and not to mention the super white plastic forks. I had to every day start picking up after2pm so that I could let my ds who was 18m have some time playing in his garden without getting ketchip all over him. Anyway sorry to rant but this continued for over a year until I was talking with a neighbour and seemingly they had been complaining to the school and local council asking for bins for years, to be placed in our street but as usual it had been falling on deaf ears, that was until I called the school and said I would like to speak to the headmaster about the rubbish the children had been leaving behind, I was told he was too busy to speak with me, I was boling to say the least and over the next few days I had nearly 2 black dustbin bags full of the usual litter from the children collected from the garden and yes...... you guessed it I marched round to the school through the main entrance and dumped it at the reception with it all spilling out on to the floor, poor office woman I did feel sorry for her she looked terrified, I just calmly explained it was a gift to the school from my garden and now it was where it belonged and that I would be calling reguarly with these bags until there was something done about it. After 6m we now have bins placed along the street and the food outlets have bins too!

Forgot to add that yes it is illegal in our area too to drop litter and the kids/parents can be fined 25pound for dropping a wrapper, but sadly there is no one to force the issue there are no wardens etc

I would certainly write to school about it northerner. It's the sort of thing that should be raised in assembly (do they still do assembly in secondary schools?)