I live opposite an infant's school. This has two consequences

1) I make sure I'm the hell away from there before it opens
2) I expect to come home every day to a road covered in shards of glass and plastic and/or blood stains.

Now, obviously, setting up a webcam pointing at a school full of children is just likely to get me arrested but I'd dearly like to do it so I can start a web page showing how suicidally stupid most drivers seem to get the moment they procreate.

Jon

My parents live by a primary school and the road was blocked up daily and parents double parked even though it is a village school and everyone lives within a few minutes walk.

There's a primary school at the top of the road and it's a nightmare trying to turn out of the junction in the mornings as there's cars parked right up to the junction and around it and people everywhere.

I don't understand why there needs to be parked cars in the mornings. Drive kids to school (admittedly I would park maybe half a mile away and make them walk), drop them off and drive off. When I was a kid, our dad would drop us off at a bus stop* on his way to work. It would never take more than about thirty seconds for the three of us to jump out.

I admit, picking kids up is a bit more difficult. At our school, they staggered the year groups so the year 7 kids were out ten minutes before the Year 10 and 11 kids. The year 8 and 9 kids were released five minutes after the year 7 kids. Helped ease congestion.


*The nearest bus stop was five minutes away and served by a single bus, whereas the one he dropped us off at was two miles down the road and served by six buses, all headed into the city centre.

When I was eight I walked to school from home. No car no parents. Kids nowadays are molly coddled.

HAhaha. We walked the half-mile to school too. It was fine. Secondary school for us was on the other side of Brum. Took me an hour in travelling each way each day.

When I were a lad we didn't walk to school. We had to hop because we were so poor we could only afford one shoe each.

Jon

Oh a shoe , what luxury, we dreamed of a shoe!

Ha - I used to carry my brother to school as we could only afford 1 shoe between the two of us

What, hopping?

+1

I had to hop because when I was four we were so poor I was forced to sell my own leg.

Jon

It’s an utter nightmare outside of other half’s school. It‘s a post area too, so the 4x4s turn up en masse, then they have to turn around in the road, usually on a blind corner, to get home.

At the end of the day, this whole charade is repeated.

Just to illustrate the kind of road this is, further on down the road, someone in a van managed to run down two horses, killing the horses and one rider the other week. It’s dangerous, and not the best place to drop children off.