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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I think it's ok for people who have time and want to drop their kid off in front of the school and not have them have to cross the street. The kid also doesn't have to open the door. I think that's a viable option for stay-at-home moms with smaller children, nannies etc...
It's the parents that are in a hurry, need to get somewhere else, panicking in the line, stopping in the wrong place and then doing u-turns, or just plain ignorant and selfish who are the problem. You know, the same people who park on other people's driveways and speed through playground zones. They want the best of both worlds.
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My issue is that for 3 schools on the same street, the school I'm going to is the only one that doesn't have a crosswalk that goes from across the street to the school entrance. I have to go almost a block down in either direction to reach the crosswalk that in front of the other school entrances and walk back towards my child's school. Or I have to get to the other side of the road without using a U-turn and fight for one of the 4-6 spots that aren't almost all the way to the other school crosswalks.
Today, for a moment, I thought I saw the afterlife. At a 4 way stop by a different school, on my turn to go, as I enter into the intersection, the vehicles perpendicular to me going north and southbound (I was going Westbound) both lurched into the intersection. Not rolled in, lurched. Like they were going to compete in a drag race. I thought I was going to get double t-boned for a moment until both vehicles suddenly slammed on the brakes to avoid the collision. WTF is up with that? I'm not invisible.