Scoot Off…
I’m not sure I’m going to be popular for saying this; I can see from sheer number of the things the majority rule but…
‘Scooters on the school run are a pure menace!’
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I can’t understand it!? Children are knowingly unpredictable so why are we putting them on wheels? Madam’s school is next door to another school and between them there are nearly 1000 pupils – I estimate nearly half of these are scooting which means nearly 400 wobbly children zooming down the pavement towards you!
Factor in buggies, toddlers and the local high school it’s utter chaos.
This is London for gawds sake, the pavements are crowded and busy. I’ve never sympathised much with old people but I do with the ones who are trying to negotiate their way through this mess. In this picture the businessy non-children types can be forgiven for thinking parent’s left their brains in the delivery suite.
You’re not allowed to cycle on the pavement it’s for pedestrians, I wonder how the same parents would judge the high school boys if they all decided to BMX or Skateboard home.
Is it to help the child with the walk home or to speed it up? Generally London catchment means that most schools aren’t without realistic walking distance for a healthy child but if it is this could they not at least be carried past the mess and chaos of the main gate? This seems to be the point where most children are bored by them and the parent is carrying it anyway.
Ok so Micro-Scooters are cool it’s quite clear that once the designer buggy is outgrown and the 4×4 left at home these are the status symbol of the time – take them to the park!!!I’m linking to Mummy Barrow and joining in the other Mummies having a #RantyFriday
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I totally agree (my 3 year old got a scooter for Christmas, but we won’t be using it on the school and nursery run, apart from the fact that it’s an extra pain for me) it drives me INSANE when I see kids scooting into things and over people’s feet and then not stopping at roads and car drivers having to come to screeching halts for them – as if the school run and the road around the school wasn’t bad enough, lets add mini Nigel Mansell wannabes on scooters to the mix!
So pleased it’s not just me! It seems selfish, would love to hear the logic in it from someone who does use one – there must be a good reason – why??
I agree with you too….Scooters are a pain in the bum on the school run!! My 2 have scooters but never take them to school….It is not worth the hassle!
I still don’t get it although today seemed better so maybe it’s a Friday treat? X
scooters need more space than a pavement affords- particularly when steered by me….
And me! Hubby ran over E’s last one!
Luckily we have a fairly quiet route to school and are more suburbian so the scooters don’t cause any problems. Katie loves to scoot and, as we are always running late, it means we get there on time. I can see your point in London though.
I wouldn’t mind here if they got past the school to clearer pavements first.
oh my God, you need to speak to Kate On Thin Ice!!!
http://kateonthinice.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/scooters-and-skateboards
I couldn’t get over it!! You’d think the school would be banning them (says the moody old woman) not encouraging them
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I have never allowed my daughter to take hers she is a nightmare on it and i dont think there is any need for her to take it!
If we go to park I end up carrying them, on school run I’d be pushing buggy, trying to control toddler, carrying coats, bags pe kits and a scooter!!
I hate those bloody things, pointless and just so annoying! Especially when the daft buggers try doing jumps and spins on them, fall flat on their face and expect everyone to stop and coo over them, if they walked properly all would be well.
The speed some of them do down the pavement whilst parents natter & wander – I’d be yelling which is another reason I don’t like them – I’d end up looking like headless loon trying to keep up or slow them down x
I get cross and very rarely allow my little man to go on his except when it is one of those health walks they do, I like to walk with him, its a time to chat quietly and keep him calm on the way to school and try and calm on the way back.
That sounds really nice but honestly this can’t be one of those as there’s nothing calm about it! Xx
The secondary I work at bans scooters and skateboards…. Having said that I got myself one to go out with kids at weekends as we live just over a mile from town and its much quicker than walking
Nice for weekends just think they’re better out the way of school gates! X