Another "this irritates me" thread..

[hrh_disney_queen]

It was irritating enough when school started 3 weeks ago. But in the light of today's gas prices, this is really beginning to bother me.

I sit in a carpool line that begins about an hour before school lets out. (Yes, I am one of THOSE moms) They bring the kids outside at about 3:00 to wait for their rides in 95 degreee heat, so I try to be one of the first in line so they don't have to sit there for 1/2 hour in that heat. (Last year's school had them waiting inside until their ride came up to the doors. I left the house at the time school was released then!) People are sitting there with their cars/SUVs idling with the AC blasting for over an hour!! Every school day!! Granted, it is sweltering sitting there, but I refuse to burn gas at $3.20+/gallon and waste it like that...So I sit there and sweat and go home and take a shower.

Multiply all those gallons X the number of cars X 5 days/week...don't people think???

 

[Beth76]

Why are people waiting outside of school for an hour before it lets out?

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

It has been around 95-98 degrees here since school started. Instead of figuring out how to have the kids wait inside in the A/C, they bring all of the car riders out at 3:00. If you did not get in the line by 2:15, you will be at the end of the very long line, and it will take you about 1/2 hour to get to the point where you pick up your child. Therefore, some of the kids will be sitting out in that heat for 1/2 hour--not mine... When it gets cooler out, they can wait for me to be in the back of the line. But not when it is so hot outside.

 

[dg39]

With my dd's school, all the kids that are getting picked up get dismissed to the cafeteria where there parents are waiting for them. After the parents sign them out, we leave. We only have a drop off line in the morning.