School Sense
Every day on my way to work I pass by a school and if I'm unlucky/disorganised enough then I get there just as the thousands of parents drop off their child in their 4x4. The school is situated right on a junction and the parents' cars just get parked everywhere. I take extreme care driving past, so worried that some small child could dart out from between two cars, it all seems so unresponsible to me. So I started thinking of some "creative" solutions to this problem... Perhaps they could stagger the start times for each class so that there wouldn't be so many parents turning up at one time? Or perhaps there could be an incentive for parents that car share, like their children get to be in a class with less pupils? But then I realised, there is a much better solution here. Why not have forced boarding school for all children Monday to Friday? This surely makes a lot of sense? Traffic would be reduced enormously, parents could go out to work, schools could give kids a healthier lifestyle by controling what the children eat/do after school, you know it all makes sense!
4 Comments:
*snigger*
Why not just move the school to some other location?
4/14/2005 06:39:00 PM
Come on, you're being completely unreasonable here, the solution is quite obvious: tax the suckers who think they need a big 4x4 to shuttle their precious offspring the few hundred yards down the road into oblivion. Surely walking your kids to school is beneficial all round, and we may even be able to get some pressure off the NHS if all the fat kids get some exercise!
4/15/2005 12:20:00 AM
The real problem of school safety is having children and cars in close proximity to each other.
The solution is either to remove the children or the cars. You choose the children, but I prefer banning all cars on the roads between say 8.00am and 9.00am. Not only would this force children to walk to school, in perfect safety and with all of the health benefits, but it would also mean that anybody wanting to cycle to work could do so in safety as well.
I commend the idea to the house...
4/15/2005 01:55:00 PM
It would be good if there was a way to ban unnecessary car journeys. For example, people doing a bit of saturday shopping on the high street can use public transport. Kids that need to get to school can use public transport. Both of these are examples of places that a lot of people need to get to on a regular basis, so there is no reason why they can't be well-served by public transport.
On the other hand, large amounts of grocery shopping, shifting about large equipment, or simply going to work in places not well-served by public transport may be difficult without cars. Unfortunately I don't see an easy way to tell which journeys are frivolous and which aren't.
It would probably be good if (non-resident) parked cars were banned from within a certain distance of schools, with harsh parking fines and traffic offence fines used to improve the public transport system to those schools.
4/22/2005 11:17:00 AM
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