a great day for those who live next to schools

OP – enjoy your next 6 weeks. May your lunchtimes be sunny and chilled.

Thanks convert! I am having a good day. The neighbourhood is as peaceful as you’ll ever see it, the sun is out, and half of my colleagues all appear to be out of the office for either work or holiday reasons. Even the cat is sleeping near the window again. It’s all good!

Bliss.

We have trains (slow line), planes (Heathrow’s weekend takeoff pattern) and kids some distance away, and have no issues, but would hate the parking and drop- off chaos of any school.  Should be banned.  Ours have always walked and now use trains

But Honestly What a bizarre thing to get wound up by OP, I quite like the sound of kids playing, plus it’s all done by ~4:30 most weekdays days, and quiet most weekends.

Having autistic traits and noise damage deafness high tones like kids shouting is painful.  I couldn’t live next to a primary school.   My issue not theirs but not everyone is tbe same

I live 100m from a village school. The noise doesn’t bother me at all and I WFH.

The idiot parents dodgy parking and general lack of common sense thus blocking roads etc. is vexing. Most of them only live 5-10mins walk away!!

You are Prince Charles in Windsor Castle and ICMFP.

Hasn’t he had a promotion recently? 😉

@convert U OK hun?

Only person getting worked up here is you, if you want to vent off take it to the Thread Police thread.

@convert U OK hun?

Totally tip top thanks for asking. Poster celebrates the gift of peace and quiet and is met by the usual mince. Only seems fair to point out the dower middle aged nonsense of the neggy nellies.

elshalimo – heh,  the difference between village life and the inner city!

Most kids here walk to school. So  traffic isn’t too bad, and there’s no spare room to plonk a car so bad parking isn’t a problem either. But on the other hand, there are <looks out of window> 28 houses and some 20-30 flats with 10m of the playground boundary. (Some of the houses are literally 5m away, so I could be worse off…)

Agreed, absolutely brilliant day – the school across the road broke up for summer holidays 3 weeks ago, so it is silence and clear roads round here!

I break up next week for 6 ISH weeks off.

Can’t wait.

Like a tiny taste of retirement ?

I’m just over 100 yards from the local primary and on the only side street with a little bit of space to turn around.

The school attendance has more than tripled since we moved in and now it seems a huge number of those kids get driven to school. Often by people who are only a few streets away but rather than walk will drive, and then sit on the surrounding streets with their engines running for longer than it would have taken to walk. Enough of these parents are such entitled selfish idiots that they have no consideration for the area they are clogging up and the side streets they quite often block completely. Ask them to move and you get ‘I’ll only be a few minutes’. Twunts.

I won’t miss the road carnage in the mornings for a while that’s for sure.

Some days the play noise doesn’t bother me, other days it can make my feel physically irritated. I have noise cancelling headphones and windows I can close for the latter. Sensory issues can suck.

Missed the edit window!

I’m joking about it being absolutely brilliant as I like hearing the kids all making noise and carrying on – always good to hear kids having fun. I’m working when school run is on so the road carnage doesn’t bother me either.

I couldn’t stand school when I was that age, but now I’m older and crabbit I actually enjoy hearing the noise they all make whilst playing at breaks and lunch or before and after school.

Kids in a primary school playground is a joyous sound of life. To be welcomed and celebrated.

Their parents refusing to park more than 10 metres from the school gate – not so much.

A primary school backs on to our house, I quite like the noise of the kids playing and there’s a twenty foot stone wall which means our house isn’t overlooked which makes the garden very peaceful, the parking outside the school at pick up and drop off is total carnage but as we’re one street away and about two minutes walk from the school gate nobody ever uses our street to park and walk the kids round, go figure, we actually bought the house for the Welsh medium school which is five minutes walk away, which is nice.

How am I now  going to feel smug cruising past all the mums in their chelsea tractors who absolutely must drop their little loves off directly outside the school gates?

But even so, 400 primary school kids can’t half make a bloody racket

I can clearly hear the kids playing outside the nearest of the two primary schools to me, individual voices too – it’s half a mile away, the other side of a busy main road (that used to be the A350!)

My house was built before WW2 – the school was built in the 1980’s.

I can clearly hear the kids playing outside the nearest of the two primary schools to me, individual voices too – it’s half a mile away, the other side of a busy main road (that used to be the A350!)

It’s mad!  Now imagine them having their screaming competitions 12 yards from your front room window!  There’s actually another primary school behind this one – it’s about 200-250m away from my house.  I have absolutely zero awareness of it, but it’s presumably adding to the general hubbub…

Big back to school displays in the shops now.

I used to live next to a primary – not a problem, got used to it and then moved in beside a coal fired power station.  That got blown up, so it’s just the herring gulls now.

Still does not stop school from hiring out sports hall with door open sending radio 1 or heart type music blearing with the image of middle aged fatty mums twerking

2and a bit weeks until they’re back.