Dropping kids @ the school Gate....

thebullkf

then legging it....

Seems to be the modus operandi of a few parents in my local Infants school....

Does anyone else experience this?
Ami being over protective--over reacting??

i mean literally,schools officially not open,but school yard is.
parents walk in gate-kiss/hug child then they feck off:eek:

I have to be honest here-- i would never do that...and if i had a/caught a childminder/babysitter/family member even doing it,they'd never get a second chance to do it!.

Any thoughts?

(apologies if this has been done to death:o-i had a quick look and didn't see a similar thread)

we'llallhavetea_old

well i don't do it. i walk my daughter into the class, she's in senior infants. however, i don't see anything wrong with letting them walk in from the gate. obviously it's not nice to just leg it, but what are you suppose to do? stand there staring at the child playing with the other kids?

i think you're over reacting tbh. when my daughter is ready to walk in from the gate, she will.

astra2000

Oh ya I have seen this done at my childs then playschool. I was shocked mind you it wasnt the norm just the same couple of parents too busy trying to get off to work than to spend the time escorting their kids into the building, actually they didnt even drop them at the gates pulled up in a little parking area let them off and then off they went leaving a 3 or 4 year old to make their own way in.

alex73

I don't get out of the car, Drop the kids off 15mins before school starts. 400 pupils in primary and I have never seen any of the parents walk the children to the class (apart from junior infance). 25% of the kids walk to school anyway.

alex73

I presume the thread relates to some Dublin school.

XxMCRxBabyxX

I was never escorted into the building as a kid. I was only ever dropped at the gate (Minus my first day in my new school when I moved to Ireland)

I really don't see the problem tbh. As long as you get the child to school what's going to happen?!

Nevyn

It depends on the age of the kids and soon it is before the school opens, often in many schools the kids line up in thier classes in the yard before the bell goes, and then they troop into the school building, can't see that being an issue as long as it's not pelting rain and the kids are there more then 10 mins or so before the time.

alex73

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

I was never escorted into the building as a kid. I was only ever dropped at the gate (Minus my first day in my new school when I moved to Ireland)

I really don't see the problem tbh. As long as you get the child to school what's going to happen?!

Exactly,, I presume the thread was started by some parent who sends kids to fee paying private school..

XxMCRxBabyxX

alex73 wrote: »

Exactly,, I presume the thread was started by some parent who sends kids to fee paying private school..

My first school was a fee paying private school in the middle of Africa!

In fact I don't think any of my classmates in that school were dropped further than the gates either!

astra2000

OP when you say infant school do you mean preschool or primary school?

thebullkf

ok.. bear with me...lots of posts in like 2 mins..:)

thebullkf

its not a private school

junior infants....4-5 year olds.


kids dropped @ gate. parents = gone.

10-20 mins before school.:eek:

thebullkf

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

well i don't do it. i walk my daughter into the class, she's in senior infants. however, i don't see anything wrong with letting them walk in from the gate. obviously it's not nice to just leg it, but what are you suppose to do? stand there staring at the child playing with the other kids?

i think you're over reacting tbh. when my daughter is ready to walk in from the gate, she will.

???


i stand there with some other parents till teacher comes out to escort my child to class.

kids are all in their lína's

thebullkf

alex73 wrote: »

I presume the thread relates to some Dublin school.

yes.

and?

slarkin123

I don't see anything wrong with kids being dropped off at the gates if they're open. In our school they're not. Kids are being left outside locked gates and there is a chance of one wandering off.

XxMCRxBabyxX

thebullkf wrote: »

its not a private school

junior infants....4-5 year olds.


kids dropped @ gate. parents = gone.

10-20 mins before school.:eek:

As far as I'm concerned my point still stands then.
They're being dropped off at school, why should a parent have to wait? I certainly turned out fine without my parents waiting for me to head into the classroom

littlebug

Our school have a policy that the parents must not leave until the child has gone in the door.

thebullkf

astra2000 wrote: »

Oh ya I have seen this done at my childs then playschool. I was shocked mind you it wasnt the norm just the same couple of parents too busy trying to get off to work than to spend the time escorting their kids into the building, actually they didnt even drop them at the gates pulled up in a little parking area let them off and then off they went leaving a 3 or 4 year old to make their own way in.

similar story here...

thebullkf

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

As far as I'm concerned my point still stands then.
They're being dropped off at school, why should a parent have to wait? I certainly turned out fine without my parents waiting for me to head into the classroom

presumablyso your child doesn't get abducted


there's nobody in the yard bar kids+ parents....

XxMCRxBabyxX

thebullkf wrote: »

presumablyso your child doesn't get abducted


there's nobody in the yard bar kids+ parents....

More than enough witnesses to prevent anyone attempting to abduct a child. Like I said myself and everyone I went to school with were fine.

silja

At 5 I walked to my kindergarten, about 1/2 a mile from our house, though that was in a more rural setting in Switzerland.

4 may be a bit early, depending on the maturity of the child, but at 5 years old I think that is perfectly acceptable, especially as they are not alone- there are several of their mates and parents around, as was stated. That being said, at the playschool my kids go to, everyone up to kindergarten (4.5 years) must be signed for at the classroom door, signed in and out every day. That is in the USA though, where we currently live.

we'llallhavetea_old

thebullkf wrote: »

???

huh?

when my daughter decides she wants to walk in from the gate by herself she will... whats the confusion? i'm confused? *scratches head*

i stand there with some other parents till teacher comes out to escort my child to class.

kids are all in their lína's

there are no lines to go in in the morning at my daughters school. the kids are playing outside or are in class yakkin, waiting for class to start.

i don't really know what you're worrying about.

cynder

In my lads school only around 10 out of 120 parents stay with their junior/senior infants, the rest leave them in the playground.

school starts at 9.20 at 9.10 a teacher is on yard duty, many leave their kids off before 9.10. I'm at the school at 8.50 as my boy starts pre school in the school at 9.00 i drop him off then stay with my 5 year old either until his teacher comes or someone is on active yard duty.

The kids are not permitted to enter the school before 9.20 bell unless is it pouring down with rain. (not drizzle, heavy rain).

cbyrd

I drop at the school gate very rarely ... mine would be embarrassed if i hung around :rolleyes: the school is open from 9am school starts at 9.20am and parents are not encouraged to walk the children into class except in the first week of junior infants as it leaves the hall too full of adults and can lead to confusion and overcrowding.

That said i drop mine some morning around the corner from the school and they walk about 5 mins in a nice quiet housing estate with other kids from school (its a common shortcut).. i'm not too paraniod about abducters round every corner and i hope i have instilled some street smarts into my girls, i cannot be there with them at every moment and i need to know that if i cannot for any reason get to them (puncture illness etc) that they have the smarts to get home safe. and no i'm not irresponsible, mad, getting at amyone or too liberal with them, they are my life and as such i must teach them how to do things without me....;)

thebullkf

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

More than enough witnesses to prevent anyone attempting to abduct a child. Like I said myself and everyone I went to school with were fine.

not really. i was on my own with 3 kids for 10 mins yesterday morning.
not a soul around. i'm on school property but unsupervised.

thebullkf

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

huh?

i was wondering about the walk in when she's ready comment.;)

when my daughter decides she wants to walk in from the gate by herself she will... whats the confusion? i'm confused? *scratches head*

i think you misunderstand,i'm not talking about handholding them into class.
i'm talking about alocked building,empty of visible staff.
open schoolyard,and kids being left-

there are no lines to go in in the morning at my daughters school. the kids are playing outside or are in class yakkin, waiting for class to start.

i don't really know what you're worrying about.

yeah i'm prob. over reacting:o

thebullkf

cbyrd wrote: »

I drop at the school gate very rarely ... mine would be embarrassed if i hung around :rolleyes: the school is open from 9am school starts at 9.20am and parents are not encouraged to walk the children into class except in the first week of junior infants as it leaves the hall too full of adults and can lead to confusion and overcrowding.

That said i drop mine some morning around the corner from the school and they walk about 5 mins in a nice quiet housing estate with other kids from school (its a common shortcut).. i'm not too paraniod about abducters round every corner and i hope i have instilled some street smarts into my girls, i cannot be there with them at every moment and i need to know that if i cannot for any reason get to them (puncture illness etc) that they have the smarts to get home safe. and no i'm not irresponsible, mad, getting at amyone or too liberal with them, they are my life and as such i must teach them how to do things without me....;)

good post.


but what age group? i'm talking 4/5 year olds....

i live miles from the school....

Maddison

My little boy is 7 and Ive only started allowing him to walk into the yard by himself recently, I park across the road from the school and he is escourted across the road by the lollypop lady, I watch him enter the gates & drive away. I only started doing this because he has come to an age where he doesnt want mammy walking him in and hugging him in front of his friends, I suppose he feels that little bit more grown up. He gives me a cuddle in the car & goes on his merry way with mammy watching him from a distance.

thebullkf

why should a parent have to wait?

why wouldn't a parent wait?? surely nothings too important to not watch your kid....?

we'llallhavetea_old

thebullkf wrote: »

i think you misunderstand,i'm not talking about handholding them into class.
i'm talking about alocked building,empty of visible staff.
open schoolyard,and kids being left-

ah well, we usually skid to a halt in the bus space and leg it in (out of breath) just in the nick of time, most mornings

i'm never down there earlier than ten past tbh, so the school is already unlocked.

but if my daughter wanted to go in by herself, she would be in the yard or class for the ten minutes without supervision i guess... i wouldn't be worried about that.

yeah i'm prob. over reacting:o

well, your school is different to our school, so i dunno really

implausible

thebullkf wrote: »

presumably so your child doesn't get abducted

Seriously, I don't get this obsession with kids being abducted. The chances of a child being kidnapped are no greater nowadays than they were a generation ago, you just hear far more about it now. There is a far greater danger of them being knocked down; now, there's a reason to hang around the school - if your child is crossing the road.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with parents dropping kids off so early that none of the staff are there, but there isn't a need for parents to stay if the teachers are there.