"Residents only" parking sign

[Devil2575]

Countdown said:

Devil2575 said:

In my experience the vast majority of parents walk their children to school. A minority drive them and a minority of them behave unreasonably.

Not round these 'ere parts

Problem is we live in a sort of village/town with low population density. Local (smaller) primary schools have closed down and children have to go to larger primary schools further away. At a rough guess I'd say 40% of parents drive. To exacerbate matters the school will NOT open the doors before 8.50 which means parents have to wait with their little cherubs until then. As a result you potentially have 50/60 extra cars around the school during a very short period of time.

Having said all that I don't think it's the majority of parents who cause the problem. It's always a minority of "entitlements" who believe their circumstances are special.

Remove the word vast from my post and we're in agreement.

[Hol]

Countdown said:

Hol said:

I think 'entitlements' is a vet word to describe them.
They come from all walks of life too - which means wealth , or wealth envy is not a contributor.

I didn't mean it in terms of wealth - more that there are some people in life who generally think the rules don't or shouldn't apply to them or that they're justified in breaking the rules. I think you get this attitude in ALL social strata.

Exactly,

One of this countries biggest problems are people who wrongly believe they are owed more than the next person.

PH has more than it's share.

[sim72]

We have the same problem in our village, which has the primary school which serves three or four other villages a few miles away, so driving the kids in is pretty much the only way of doing it.

From what I've seen, most people are fairly considerate, it's simply when you've got 70-80 vehicles descending into a small village at the same time, if even 5% of them are inconsiderate you're going to have problems.

[Devil2575]

sim72 said:

We have the same problem in our village, which has the primary school which serves three or four other villages a few miles away, so driving the kids in is pretty much the only way of doing it.

From what I've seen, most people are fairly considerate, it's simply when you've got 70-80 vehicles descending into a small village at the same time, if even 5% of them are inconsiderate you're going to have problems.

You'd think the School bus had never been invented.