School – parents and their parking…

So our school is on a dead end with a through path that cyclists use as a fast rat run.

In this dead end there are also the school entrance/exit carpark and the same again for another adjacent school.

The school has erected huge signage saying ‘please dont parking access and turning circle’.

Guess what? Loads of cars parked infront of these signs, double parked the whole way down too, often with their engines running.

Due to the locality of three other Primary schools the catchment area is tiny so theres **** all need to drive gawd knows how short a distance to sit outside the school, engines running. Crackers.

Its dangerous for kids due to cyclists not slowing etc etc.

Why do people do this?!!

Ring the feds and ask them to send some traffic pcso’s down. They recently had a purge at our kids school and ticketed repeat offenders.

Because they want to get their kids to school as quickly as possible? Cars are used because it rains and can be cold in the winter – kids are very often dropped off on the way to work hence the car. Not everybody lives within half a mile of the school.
No excuse for parking where they shouldn’t though.

TBH There’s not a single school around here that doesn’t have a parking problem. Quite often the schools were built before the housing came and made the problem worse.

Are the cyclists allowed down the path? They should be slowing down anyway.

The school bring this up at the parents mornings etc. The problem is alot of the mothers drop their kids and scoot off then are back there again at 3.15pm to pick them up. Again in the cars. I’ve heard the odd stories about this but never seen it till now!

The path isn’t a cycle path- its narrow between two mesh fences of both schools.

Almost every day I cycle pick up hora jnr. Its just easier/less hassle.

Don’t worry, this will soon ease off when they build a few thousand new houses in the vicinity.

Great timing.

Just dropped my youngest off this morning with her cousin at easter club (School).

This is a school that was proactive enough to spend 6mths warning the parents about inconsiderate parking and telling them why it was bad for them to park on the yellow zig zags. Eventually the called in the local Old Bill and had a week of ticketing any offenders.

Considering this is the quietest time of the year and there is maybe 1/50th of the normal numbers there you would imagine that there is zero need to park in a no parking area.

I pulled up to drop my two off and as its bike day I had a couple of bikes to drop off too (Would have loved to cycle there but just not possible). Pulled up into the NUMEROUS free spaces 20-30yds from the school and got the bikes out. A BMW X3 pulled up 5yds from the school gate, parked on top of the no parking sign on the tarmac. I must admit I didnt see the guy park up etc and I have been told by the wife to be less bolshy with strangers so probably wouldn’t have said anything.

Its amazing how thick and inconsiderate people are.

The school has erected huge signage saying ‘please dont parking access and turning circle’.

Not sure I’d want that school teaching my kids English 😕

Why do people do this?!!

They can’t let their kids walk to school, because of all the cars and dangerous parking.

At the weekly parents meeting the Headmasters told the mothers etc to challenge anyone they see double-parking/blocking.

I don’t think thats a good idea.

Sub contract Muddydwarf to kick all their wing mirrors off?.

They can’t let their kids walk to school, because of all the cars and dangerous parking nonces.

FTFY.

Can’t possibly let little Persephone walk 20 yards unaccompanied in case a man in a polyester track suit offers them badges.

I thought you were joining the specials? Then you could go down there yourself and really make hora Jr unpopular chuck your weight around 🙂

Get some of the older kids to.go round “ticketing” the offenders (under supervision). It’s amazing how well that can work.

Note that, despite any signs, it may not actually be a No Parking zone.

and jam for them? 😀

the Headmasters told the mothers etc to challenge anyone they see double-parking/blocking.

The head teacher at my daughters infant school was punched by a mother that she challenged for parking on the pavement across the school gates.

The school now relies on PCSO’s and traffic wardens to manage parking.

Not just schools, nurseries have this too, in fact it’s ****ing everywhere. Some bloke last night double parked* outside the corner shop and nonchalantly walked inside, there was a tight spot (would have been easier if he wasn’t driving an enormous **** tank) behind the car he was next to and a huge spot about 15m away.

Lots of people just don’t give a shit and will abandon their car anywhere.

*parked next to a legally parked car, blocking the road, can never remember if this is actually double parking

There’s a school on my comute, it’s f****** ridiculous.

I’m normaly calm and level headed but on occasions I’ve had to really hold back from just sticking the handbrake on and sounding the horn untill some selfish bint turns up to move her sodding XC90 that’s parked on the double yellows (they’re set up on alternating sides, so there’s lots of legal (if a bit inconsiderate on a narrow road) parking arround, just some people chose to ignore the lines and leave a gap that a car can just about squeeze through (fine except it’s a busy road so within 30s there’ll be 20 car’s queing in each direction).

It’s probably a minority that park like that, and it’s usualy the same ones. Should be an advanced dummed down and basic with really clear colourfull pictures for thick idiots parking exam for people planning on breeding.

thisisnotaspoon

you’d get ‘whats your problem, I have to drop my son/daughter off’ along with ‘the face’ that looks like they’ve just had a pineaple stick inserted up their a-hole.

The head teacher at my daughters infant school was punched by a mother that she challenged for parking on the pavement across the school gates.

WOW. Simply wow.

A few of the parents at my kids’ school seem on the edge of a total melt-down, and it seemingly takes one little thing to top them over the edge…

Just the day I was walking past and a woman’s trying to turn her (huge 4×4) car round in the fairly narrow road. Another parent is approaching on a bike and has to pull up sharpish to avoid being reversed into (from my view, she car driver was oblivious to her presence).

Not unreasonably, the woman on the bike remonstrates with the car driver but instead of an apology gets a load of verbal and mental waving of arms.

Guess you never know what else is going on in peoples’ lives.

Why do people do this

In the misplaced belief that
– little Tarquin and Esme will be safer and better served in life by being driven everywhere
– that they could not possibly invest an extra few minutes of quality time being healthy and building healthy lifestyles with their kids, as life is too busy
– that a car is a god-given right and that they are ‘only a moment’

hora – this was in a middle class area of Hove, I never cease to be amazed by some people’s sense of entitlement.

You only have to look at the kids of the worst offenders to see how it gets passed down through the generations.

Guess you never know what else is going on in peoples’ lives.

I think we/one would be being kind if we thought they were suffering/family illnesses etc.

It is far more likely to be selfishness.

Our neighbours bought a dog to get them fit. They drive it to the local park 300m’s away then park up in the tiny park carpark thats also used for a social club/scout association and church meets.

I take my four year old to school on her bike. I walk, usually pushing t’other one in a pushchair, while she cycles. It’s less than half a mile and on paths. Nice.

It’s a small village so a fair number do walk, but the short dead-end road leading to the school is still rammed with badly parked cars, usually blocking the pavement to the extent that it’s a bit tight for the pushchair or her wobbly riding. So I get her to cycle down the middle of the road while I walk along behind her.

I get looks of disapproval from other parents for this reckless behaviour. 🙄

Our neighbours bought a dog to get them fit. They drive it to the local park 300m’s away.

Yep, we have people on our street that drive to the other end of the street to visit their elderly mother. A distance of less than 200 meters.

Sub contract Muddydwarf to kick all their wing mirrors off?.

Genius, always good to get a flashback to threads of old. Chapeau.

Yep, we have people on our street that drive to the other end of the street to visit their elderly mother. A distance of less than 200 meters.

Supermarket is circa 0.6miles away. I always walk unless we are coming back from somewhere/stop on the way- I often bump into them there- they’ve driven there and back! Maybe if they were doing a big shop but often they’ve just got a small basket. I walk because the gearbox feels sticky when cold, the car isn’t fully warmed up and it just feels like a massive hassle compared to straight out of the door.

Yep, we have people on our street that drive to the other end of the street to visit their elderly mother. A distance of less than 200 meters.

I’ve heard this kinda thing from several people so it must go on but until I see it with my own eyes I cannot bring myself to believe that there are ****tards that actually do shit like that.

you wouldnt challenge anyone round our way as you’d more likely get a punch in the face from the mothers or stabbed in the leg.
Our school is at the end of the cul de sac and they have built a concrete triangle as a turning circle. Cars would park 3 abreast so the school has a traffic flow monitor.
I feel for the bus drivers that have to negotiate the road. It got so bad that a lovely parent depositied their car at the bottom of the road sideways which stopped the bus coming up for 30mins. Unfortunately Chardonnay and Alfie cant walk up the road so they sat on the bus until some Dads forcefully moved the car 🙂

Cars are used because it rains and can be cold in the winter

Isn’t that what coats and jumpers are for?

If you live close enough that you *could* walk/ride but choose not to because of some rain or it’s a bit chilly then you’ll likely be just as cold and wet taking the (not yet warmed up yet) car.

Do not understand

I’m not exactly old (mid 30’s) and the only time I ever went to school in the car was when I was 17 and learning to drive.

FWIW, primary school was 1.5 mile walk, secondary was 4.5 miles and went by bus or on my bike

On my current ride to work I pass 3 schools, 2 primary and 1 secondary.

One of the primary schools has a lollipop lady manning the crossing literally right outside the gates, and it still amazes me how many parents get impatient with her, not stopping for her, tooting and gesturing and such, only to then pull over 20 yards later to drop their kid off who then is safely ushered across the road by said lollipop lady who is there to protect them from the traffic, 90% of which is made up of their own parents!

We have coppers hanging around outside the school every now and then to stop this sort of thing, seems to work.

Oh and

Its dangerous for kids due to cyclists not slowing etc etc.

Surely the cyclists should slow down then? Seems like it’s only the kids who are in the right here…..

Attended a meeting at the local holiday inn for residents of the flats we live in, it’s less than a 2 minute walk away, we were the only ones that walked there, the meeting started with a little discussion on how few spaces there were in the hotel car park. 😥

Ring the local neighbourhood policing team. They will send someone down.

My local lot did a plain clothes op where they noted the index and took a photo of the offender. Fine and 3 points in the post to each one parked on the hashing.

They did this after weeks of warnings and uniform presence. All that happened is that the parents only took notice if the PCSO was there. When they weren’t they went back to doing as they liked. I believe they even warned in advance they would be out in plain clothes so no excuses really.

Seems to have been very effective.

Early into this school year, in my new post as head, I approached a **** in a fancy mercedes coupe who had just span his tires going around the roundabout in the driveway to the school before charging off to stop.

I approached him, and told him to wind his window down, informed him he was travelling too fast, and he argued he wasn’t, explained again whether he felt it was or not, it was too fast for the school.

Ignorant **** wound the window up, i walked back to the entrance to the building. He then screached out of the parking space, stalled the car, blocking the driveway, possibly turning off the driving aids, then badly power slid around the roundabout, understeering into a plant pot.

Pulled up back in the parking space – this was showdown time, one of us was going to lose face, and if it was me, parents would know I was a push over, so I went back to call him a **** or words to that effect.

Out of the car runs man-giant, fists swinging, **** me he was big. Two of my boarding staff, a driver, and a security guard charged in to stop him hitting me, I kept calm, inviting him in to talk, he went even more mental, almost crying

landed one punch in my ribs. before his daughter came out. eventually got him into his car, and I left them to it.

Outcome in the end was he is banned from the site, and after two months his mother stopped by, some poltically influential type, and said sorry for her sons behaviour.

You really don’t know what happened in another person’s day. doesn’t excuse his behaviour, but I could have approached a bit softer.

It’s actually worse than that D0NK – during the winter with the heavy snow (about 4 years ago) my wife was on maternity leave and saw them struggling to drive down our uncleared street so, not knowing where they stayed, she helpfully said: “Don’t worry. I’ll pop in every day and administer your mum’s medicine – save you risking the drive in this snow.” and they agreed.
We only found out where they stayed when she told the district nurse about the arrangement!

😆 a mate of mine did a stint as a postman. He told me about a mother he saw every day, would get her two kids out of the house, strapped into the car and drive them 200yards to the school (same street) and then drive back again.
He could walk his route, post letters etc & still be outside the school before she was.

Quirrel: that is astounding!

Surely he should have got more than being banned from the site? Do you have the power to expel children if their parents misbehave? Failing that I think assault charges would have been appropriate.

I walked round the shop the other night, just as I was leaving one of my neighbors was getting in his car and drove down the street. I got to the shop just as he was pulling up out side. I nodded to him and we both walked into the shop. He was paying as I left and I saw him pull up at home as i walked into my kitchen. Lazy bastard. He drives a white faux by four though so i should expect it!!

My old neighbour used to drive the kids to school, park in the street outside, then walk home- then later, walk back, pick up the kids and the car and drive home. Weird.

It’s a great tautology though, “I have to drive the kids to school because the roads around the school are dangerous because everyone drives their kids to school”

Graham S
I registered it with the police including the CCTV footage, following my careful standing in the camera’s view. Registering it with the police was more to make sure that if he came back and shot me, or ran me off the road on my bike, there was a record of who it might be.

Fee paying schools, political heft, and doing my best to keep the daughter in school and unaffected meant a softer approach.

My approach, particularly the pastoral side, won his mother over, who even with her significant position here, greets me first when we meet, which is a first for her.

Plus with only a slight red mark on my back that lasted less than 48 hours it meant a total fine of around a tenner in court and a lot of hassle.

My local lot did a plain clothes op where they noted the index and took a photo of the offender. Fine and 3 points in the post to each one parked on the hashing.

Couple of blokes hanging around outside a primary school taking photos.

That sounds like a great idea, very well planned out and not in any way likely to cause any problems.

Nope no problems at all. Why did you think they would be blokes by the way?