Ok. I am going to describe a situation and would like your opinions.
I drive my kids to school (this is because we live nearly 10 miles away - judgypants ) and every morning we see a woman walking some kids to school along a reasonably busy main road that is on a hill (she's heading down it)
There are usually 5 or 6 children. 2 or 3 of them are under school age and the others are reception/yr 1 age. She pushes a double pushchair, but the kids are usually walking.
Well, I say walking. I mean running. All of them. Running along the road in front of her and behind her. Sometimes you see a couple of them running down the hill and you can't even see her because she hasn't yet turned the corner. Then you look behind her and there's a straggler or 2 waaaaaaaaaaaay behind. The kids are running, skipping and generally just being normal, innocent, danger-unaware children.
My fears are that she cannot possibly be keeping all of these children safe like this. Any of them could trip and fall into the road, or run off or what if one runs off in front and another runs off back the way they've come? Which one does she run after?
I am assuming that she must be a childminder, since the kids are all about the same age (I suppose it could be multiple births but they do look very very different, iyswim)
Should I notify the school about the way this woman has so many kids running all over the place and can't possibly ensure their safety on a busy road? Just because nothing has happened yet doesn't mean it couldn't happen. Assuming she is a childminder - would you want to know your child was going to school like this? Am I overreacting because my own kids need such careful holding onto, do other kids not? But surely having 4/5yr olds running down a busy road when you haven't even turned onto it yet isn't right? Or not noticing that you've left one halfway down the road behind you?
What should I do? What would you do? I did consider trying to talk to her but she looks very VERY unapproachable. I tried smiling at her and she just scowled at me.