Every afternoon when I pick up my child, the most 'haunting' thing for me is parking in front of the school gate to wait for my child. There are parents who treat the school gate as their own gate and park their cars very carelessly.
Security guards had to come out to remind parents - Photo: HONG DIEP
It is common to see parents parking their cars in front of school gates, waiting to pick up their children, in no particular order.
Motorbikes and cars blocking the school gate
My child studies at a high school in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. The school campus is large, so behind the school gate is a large yard for parents to park and pick up their children.
But very few parents drive to the gate to wait for their children, they usually wait in front of the gate, close to the main road with lots of traffic.
Instead of lining up in an orderly manner, each person gave way to each other a little to park more vehicles, but motorbikes and cars lined up in a mixed pattern, not in any row or order.
The road is full of cars, even cars coming later, motorbikes overflowing onto the road and inside there is space, people coming behind can't squeeze in.
The reason is that everyone wants to park outside for easy access. If they park in the middle, they will be "surrounded on all sides" by cars, making it difficult to get out quickly.
In the afternoon, everyone is in a hurry, rushing to pick up their children, then go home to cook or buy food for their children on the way, then rush to their extra classes.
But if everyone who comes later wants to park in a convenient place, everyone spills out onto the street, then there is no place for other cars to park, traffic jams are inevitable.
There are also cases that are offensive to the eyes but are considered normal by those involved.
A few days ago, a parent went to pick up his child in a 5-seater car and arrived late. Both sides of the school gate were packed with cars and motorbikes, there was no space left.
Instead of choosing a nearby parking space and walking to pick up their child or driving straight into the school grounds, the parent parked the car right in front of the school gate, right at the entrance for students and other parents.
In the afternoon, students poured out in large numbers, but with a parent's 5-seat car blocking the way, the school gate only had a very small path left, and parents and students had to jostle each other to get out of the school gate.
Some parents were so upset that they stopped and knocked on the car door, even loudly asking parents with cars to move to another place to avoid the road. One person spoke, then two people, then many others reacted, yet the parents sitting in the car remained calm...
Only when the school security guard asked parents with cars to park inside the school yard was the space in front of the school gate returned to students and other parents.
I really don't understand what parents sitting in their cars were thinking when they parked their cars right in front of the school gate. It's the school gate, not their house gate, so why do they give themselves the "right" to park their cars so carelessly?
People and vehicles are packed in front of the school gate, but parents still "carelessly" park their 5-seater cars - Photo: HONG DIEP
The gate to pick up students has been divided, but parents still follow their own will.
At a secondary school in District 5, the chaos was no less.
In front of the school gate is a rather narrow road, just two cars passing by will cause traffic jam, there is no way out, the sidewalk is occupied for business.
Therefore, parents who ride motorbikes to pick up their children often line up in two rows on the road at an angle to make room for vehicles to pass, and in front of the school gate, there is only about 2 meters left for students to enter and exit.
Yet, even though they arrived late, some parents still squeezed their motorbikes into this gap to climb onto the sidewalk, right in front of the school gate, to park.
One parent ran, another followed, leaving no room for the students to stand at the gate to wait for their parents. Many children had to struggle to get past these cars to get out.
This school has 3 gates for parents to pick up their children and the school is divided by grade level, 1-2 grades will enter and exit one gate as announced at the beginning of the school year.
However, many parents come to pick up their children not at the school gate as announced but instead go wherever is convenient, leading to a crowd at one gate, causing traffic jams.
The bus was crowded, parents should have lined up neatly, leaving space for those who came later, but everyone wanted more space so they lined up horizontally and vertically in all sorts of ways.
There should be a force to control traffic at school gates during rush hour.
Some schools have the participation of ward and residential group forces, especially during rush hours, to coordinate and block cars from entering school-area roads to limit traffic jams.
If schools with many students had the support of the police after school in the afternoon, parents would not be allowed to encroach on the road, causing traffic jams in the area.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/phu-huynh-dung-xe-hoi-giua-cong-truong-khoe-giau-hay-von-tinh-tuy-tien-20241129151545943.htm
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