Blitz on inconsiderate school parkers (From Thurrock Gazette)

About time something was done, you will probably find that a lot of these inconciderate motorists only live a short distance from the school and could quite easily walk there.

This is a big problem in College Avenue Grays, when children from the Convent and St. Thomas leave at 3.25pm. The worst offenders are members of the African community who can be seen parking up from 2.30 pm every day.

I read in the gazette today that the church in Orsett was denied permission to extend parking for the people that use the church. Go to Grays on a Sunday and look a the cars parking all over the pavements and outside businesses taking away their trade all in the name of the black church there

i agree with alot of what has been said bradley avenue is especially bad at morning and evening pick up times. too many schools in such a small area does not help things.

The council should do something about the triping hazard outside Stanford Primary school. Some inconsiderate resident has places a lockable bollard on the public footpath. Doesn't the inconsiderate cow who has illegaly stuck this bollard on the pavement realise it is a triping hazard. I hope this stupid cow gets sued if anybody falls over it and hurts themselves.

This is long overdue!

Make the lazy gits walk there kids to school, I used to walk 4 miles to school every day!

About time they sorted out the illegal and plainly dangerous parking outside Chafford Campus!

While I have some sympathy for those that have a problem with this, for the Council to get all self-righteous smacks of hypocrisy.
We have an education system that :
(1) allows parental choice on the school they choose and an appeal process if this doesn’t happen
(2) the council can just place children in schools, regardless of where they live
(3) in some instances insufficient school places for children to their local school, see 2.
The end result is that many children go to schools, placed by the council’s education department that are not in their natural catchment area. However I know of one family where their 3 children are in 2 different schools, despite applying for the same local school each time, but being placed elsewhere by the council. It’s all well and good rambling on about walking to school etc etc, but modern education choice does not support this.
I find it hilarious that that people like ThurrockBob come out with the line that he walked x miles, I too walked or cycled to school and college come rain or shine, for the first few years escorted by mum. BUT this was prior to parental choice and government and media fuelled hysteria about a paedophile behind every tree that has led to many of the last few generations of parents stopping their children do what countless generations had done before. Also some children are “mugged” for their tech toys making them fearful of walking to school.
So all in all many parents have no option either of their own choosing or forced by the education department placing them their. I would suggest that rather than get all sanctimonious, the council departments should talk to each other and seek a solution to the problem largely of their creation. Giving parents, often with little choice, parking tickets is not a solution.