Parking lessons badly needed

A TEACHER once told me that parents drove their children to school for protection from bad things in the community and placed them in much more serious danger because of crazy parking situations around their schools.
If you want to see road rage and a total disregard for traffic signs and rules then spend a little time at any government school during dropoff and pickup time.
Councils have fought a losing battle trying to rectify this situation by asking and even demanding that the Department of Education provide on site areas for car parking, but to no avail.
Private schools, under planning laws, must and do provide areas for drop off and pick up.
This is an unfair, unacceptable and unsavoury situation placed on school children, their parents, teachers and councils trying to deal with traffic.
Casey Council, with the help of three primary schools, has developed a code of conduct for drivers in school environs.
This will be difficult to enforce because my observations are that tempers fray easily during the battle to find parking spots at this time and the code may go out the window.
Perhaps schools could help by extending the time at each end of the day for children to be delivered to school and provide parents with a time slot to be there.
This is a difficult issue for councils and school administrations, but full marks are due to the City of Casey for trying to resolve the situation as best it can.