Snitching - Acceptable or not...

[Ted Maul]

Is it because more pupils live further away than back in the day? Certainly there's plenty of school kids catch buses. It may also be there being less cars per household and less opportunity for parents to ferry their children round back then.

Suppose but primary schools are still all over the place. Unless you're somewhere really rural I can't imagine many folks would be more than a 15 minute walk from a primary school.

Perhaps an indication of the annual shambles that is the allocation of school places.

[SW4Baggie]

I think it is totally the right thing to do. The parents have no thought for safety or respect for people’s property. They think they are right to say I will only be a minute and when they come back and find themselves blocked in by the person who’s house  it is they flip a lid and it’s your fault. Then in Temper they drive down the pavement not giving to hoots for safety. They bock school drives , park on the yellow zig zag lines on the pavement. How do I know this well it happened to my Daughter when she lived opposite Worlds end Infant and Junior school.they even parked on her drive , when her husband came home he blocked her in and she wasn’t able to move for an hour. A lot of parents couldn’t care less.

Agree.

I live on a road with a school and despite numerous attempts to close off the road and stop parents dropping off it always fails as there’s no enforcement. Initiatives stay in place for a couple days then one parent flouts then rules and it returns to normal.

Local supermarkets and pubs (a 5 min walk away) have offered free use of their car parks for drop offs and there’s been a well documented campaign showing how dangerous the air pollution from the loitering cars for 30 mins either side of open/closing time, but people just don’t seem to care. The backlog it causes in the local streets too means if anyone ever needed an emergency service at this time they’d never make it through. 

All for this!

[Spandaubaggie]

Is it because more pupils live further away than back in the day? Certainly there's plenty of school kids catch buses. It may also be there being less cars per household and less opportunity for parents to ferry their children round back then.

Suppose but primary schools are still all over the place. Unless you're somewhere really rural I can't imagine many folks would be more than a 15 minute walk from a primary school.

Perhaps an indication of the annual shambles that is the allocation of school places.

Living further away from schools, abysmal public transport, two working parents, increase fear due to kids mugging other kids for phones- combine it together and this is 2020 v 1980.

[Bob Fossil]

Unless they built the school after they bought the house then can't see why they complain.
More about inconvenience and general gerrumphing than safety in my experience.

[The liquidator]

I think it is totally the right thing to do. The parents have no thought for safety or respect for people’s property. They think they are right to say I will only be a minute and when they come back and find themselves blocked in by the person who’s house  it is they flip a lid and it’s your fault. Then in Temper they drive down the pavement not giving to hoots for safety. They bock school drives , park on the yellow zig zag lines on the pavement. How do I know this well it happened to my Daughter when she lived opposite Worlds end Infant and Junior school.they even parked on her drive , when her husband came home he blocked her in and she wasn’t able to move for an hour. A lot of parents couldn’t care less.

Agree.

I live on a road with a school and despite numerous attempts to close off the road and stop parents dropping off it always fails as there’s no enforcement. Initiatives stay in place for a couple days then one parent flouts then rules and it returns to normal.

Local supermarkets and pubs (a 5 min walk away) have offered free use of their car parks for drop offs and there’s been a well documented campaign showing how dangerous the air pollution from the loitering cars for 30 mins either side of open/closing time, but people just don’t seem to care. The backlog it causes in the local streets too means if anyone ever needed an emergency service at this time they’d never make it through. 

All for this!

Get some cones outside your house ......sod them idle gits

[Ministry Of Silly Signings]

When my lad was at Primary School, it was easy. The school backed on to a park with football pitches, bowling green etc, and a small car park. Even then, one morning, some blonde loony with fake tan, cheap jewellery and `My husbands Merc` (10 years old so probably 120,000 miles on the clock ) , moaned that I had parked in `Her Space`. I laughed, knelt down behind my Hyundai, and replied that I couldn`t see her name in the parking space. She went off chunterring about `getting my husband to have a word `etc. He was a right wally, who wouldn`t break a paper bag, and I told her so.

[The liquidator]

When my lad was at Primary School, it was easy. The school backed on to a park with football pitches, bowling green etc, and a small car park. Even then, one morning, some blonde loony with fake tan, cheap jewellery and `My husbands Merc`  (10 years old so probably 120,000 miles on the clock ) , moaned that I had parked in `Her Space`. I laughed, knelt down behind my Hyundai, and replied that I couldn`t see her name in the parking space. She went off chunterring about `getting my husband to have a word `etc. He was a right wally, who wouldn`t break a paper bag, and I told her so.

MCW at the highest order

[hudds]

Is it because more pupils live further away than back in the day? Certainly there's plenty of school kids catch buses. It may also be there being less cars per household and less opportunity for parents to ferry their children round back then.

Suppose but primary schools are still all over the place. Unless you're somewhere really rural I can't imagine many folks would be more than a 15 minute walk from a primary school.

Perhaps an indication of the annual shambles that is the allocation of school places.

Living further away from schools, abysmal public transport, two working parents, increase fear due to kids mugging other kids for phones- combine it together and this is 2020 v 1980.

It doesn't wholly explain it.  I think it's the prevalence of cars and expectation also. From 1969,  I used to walk about 5 miles round trip to secondary school and others further (primary school was about two miles).  Some used buses and a few parents dropped kids off but the line of kids going to school was overwhelmingly pedestrian.  There were always warning to kids not to talk to strangers or accept rides in the 1960s, so such concerns aren't new.  The casual endemic youth violence of those times was grim, too.  So pulp series of "Skinhead" books and thee like were consumed off conveyer belts.  Not muggings, just regular ambushes and a ferocious kicking.   Nobody had the protection of a car. 

Mek 'em walk.

[Protheroe]

The lack of walking to and from school probably explains the decline in Hedge Porn.

That and the internet I suppose.

[Bristolbion]

It generally seems to be the fat kids that get dropped off next to the school gates. Cause and effect?