No wonder kids are so fat

[BrilloPad]

I picked my son up from school 30 minutes before school ended. There were cars parked all round the school. I had to park 200 yards away. Each car had someone in readng book or on phone.

Theparents/guardians get there super early to reserve the best spot!!

Some people are so f**king lazy!

I would ban parking within 1 mile of any school between 8am/10am and 2pm/5pm. Offenders to have car crushed.

I might add that only used the car to take son to doctors appointment. Every other day the kids walk to/from school. And we live one of the furthest from school.

[Mich the Tester]

I picked my son up from school 30 minutes before school ended. There were cars parked all round the school. I had to park 200 yards away. Each car had someone in readng book or on phone.

Theparents/guardians get there super early to reserve the best spot!!

Some people are so f**king lazy!

I would ban parking within 1 mile of any school between 8am/10am and 2pm/5pm. Offenders to have car crushed.

I might add that only used the car to take son to doctors appointment. Every other day the kids walk to/from school. And we live one of the furthest from school.

I got chatting to a fellow from the German athletics union a couple of weeks ago on the train. I asked him what he thought was going wrong with European athletics, seeing as the 2008 Olympics was the worst year ever for the big European athletics nations (GB, although they did well in cycling, France, Germany and Italy used to dominate track and field together). He said that it’s difficult enough to get young kids to start athletics but when they do start they are often simply less fit and fast than 9 or 10 year olds twenty years ago. I asked him if that’s just his memory (you know, rose coloured spectacles and all that), but he told me he had all the data on times at different distances and weight of the kids and could only explain the problem in terms of the lack of exercise at an early age, one thing being that kids don’t walk or run to school and back anymore. Once someone’s got that disadvantage at 10 years old it’s very difficult to turn him into a top athlete at 20.

We then exchanged ideas for a future ‘Westerners Only Olympics’ to be held in 20 years time. The 100 metre walk while eating hamburger, the 400 metre texting competition, the low jump, throwing the ping pong ball, heavyweight happy slapping etc were some of our ideas.

So take heart in the chance that your son might actually compete in the real Olympics.

[Board Game Geek]

Mich posted : So take heart in the chance that your son might actually compete in the real Olympics.

I doubt it somehow, given our Government's desire to ban competitive sports from schools, on the basis that it creates a two-tier system of winners and losers.

We'll end up with a Olympic Winners Day where all the kiddiwinkles get given a gold medal, because everyone comes first by default.

[expat]

I picked my son up from school 30 minutes before school ended. There were cars parked all round the school. I had to park 200 yards away. Each car had someone in readng book or on phone.

Theparents/guardians get there super early to reserve the best spot!!

Some people are so f**king lazy!

I would ban parking within 1 mile of any school between 8am/10am and 2pm/5pm. Offenders to have car crushed with fat brat inside.

I might add that only used the car to take son to doctors appointment. Every other day the kids walk to/from school. And we live one of the furthest from school.

A school near us is parked up like a free festival every weekday afternoon. Terrible traffic jams, have to drive 200yds on wrong side of road, etc. Must be quite dangerous for pedestrians but I suppose the kids are rushed straight to the car (or SUV) like the US President in the care of a nervous Secret Service. I asked OH how big the catchment area was and was staggered to find that all those kids come from just round the corner.

[Mich the Tester]

A school near us is parked up like a free festival every weekday afternoon. Terrible traffic jams, have to drive 200yds on wrong side of road, etc. Must be quite dangerous for pedestrians but I suppose the kids are rushed straight to the car (or SUV) like the US President in the care of a nervous Secret Service. I asked OH how big the catchment area was and was staggered to find that all those kids come from just round the corner.

Why do people do this? Have they been scared by the media into thinking there’s a child molester lurking around every corner?

[Pogle]

We have a similar situation at Pogle Jr's school, cars double parked on a small residential street, when there is a free supermarket carpark 3 minutes walk away.
Pogle Jr always has, and always will walk to and from school - rain or shine. It is actually quicker to walk than go by car due to the school, being on one of the main routes from the M60 to the city centre.
We often get to school walking before our neighbours who drive in, yet lwe both leave at the same time!

[TimberWolf]

Do kids still cycle to school? Or is it too dangerous for kids to cycle to school now?

[realityhack]

I doubt it somehow, given our Government's desire to ban competitive sports from schools, on the basis that it creates a two-tier system of winners and losers.

We'll end up with a Olympic Winners Day where all the kiddiwinkles get given a gold medal, because everyone comes first by default.

Please tell me you're joking. Where did you hear that? If that's true I might just have to punch a Labour politician.

[Cyberman]

I picked my son up from school 30 minutes before school ended. There were cars parked all round the school. I had to park 200 yards away. Each car had someone in readng book or on phone.

Theparents/guardians get there super early to reserve the best spot!!

Some people are so f**king lazy!

I would ban parking within 1 mile of any school between 8am/10am and 2pm/5pm. Offenders to have car crushed.

I might add that only used the car to take son to doctors appointment. Every other day the kids walk to/from school. And we live one of the furthest from school.

Turning up later will not make your kids any fitter. Hypocrite alert !!

[Churchill]

I picked my son up from school 30 minutes before school ended. There were cars parked all round the school. I had to park 200 yards away. Each car had someone in readng book or on phone.

Theparents/guardians get there super early to reserve the best spot!!

Some people are so f**king lazy!

I would ban parking within 1 mile of any school between 8am/10am and 2pm/5pm. Offenders to have car crushed.

I might add that only used the car to take son to doctors appointment. Every other day the kids walk to/from school. And we live one of the furthest from school.

Turning up later will not make your kids any fitter. Hypocrite alert !!

Oi Cybertwat! If you read the OP properly and had an understanding of English you'd understand how much <more> of a pillock you've just made yourself out to be.

Collecting for an appointment and just picking your kids up from school are two very different things.