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weber06:
I didn't want to hijack the foolish jogger thread.

I was driving home last Friday and I had gotten out early because it was right before Christmas.  I got to town the same time the middle school got out.  And the main road through town was blocked off for construction.  So I turn onto one side street and find a ton of kids walking on the new sidewalk.  Turn onto second side street and I see a ton of kids just walking down the road.  This road is one lane in each direction and they're taking my lane. 

So i follow the car in front of me at a whopping 5 mph figuring that we need to go slow around them.  And then we stop.  We can't pass as there are cars coming at us and kids entirely in our lane.  And the car in front of me does nothing.  So I started honking.  And eventually the kids started moving a little.  But not without lookign annoyed.  And the kicker...the police were coming in the other direction had to have heard my horn and did nothing about the kids.  Was I rude to honk, and would I be rude to call the school and suggest they teach the kids how not to walk in a gang of thirty down the road blocking traffic?

fklwmn:
You werenot rude to honk (the first car should have been the one honking @ the kids, IMO) but a call to the school will likely do no good. A call to the local police non-emergency number and a request to have an officer talk to the offenders MIGHT help. Or maybei it's nto usually a problem and the excited-because-school-just-let-out-for-Christmas kids momentarily forgot themselves and theofficers passing by know it's not an ongoing issue so they didn't bother with it.

In any case, I wouldn't bother to call the schools. If it's not a problem At the school, on the bus, or at the bus stop, there isn't a lot they can do.

AndreaBeth105:
I'm not certain on the was it rude question, but I probably would have done the same thing.  I might send the school a very politely worded letter suggesting that the students might need a reminder about safety when walking home. Maybe you could word the letter so that it states that you're concerned about the students safety and would hate to see anything happen to them.    As the saying goes, you'll catch more flies with honey.

Suze:
Why do we put sidewalks in anymore?  Nobody uses them.

I see more kids, joggers, people walking dogs, going down the MIDDLE of the street (one person taking up both lanes of traffic, because they are walking on the center line)

Of course I don't think that this is a new thing - I remember one time coming home from somewhere and came up on a group of girls on bicycles. Riding side by side across the WHOLE road.

I tooted my horn (little peep, not leaning on it) Three of them turned around and gave my MOM the "finger"

real nice flipping off a 50+ woman

never did get around them, had to follow them all the way home. (a couple of blocks, but still....)

Suze

kherbert05:
Call the school. It is kind of a gray area, we can't punish kids for what they do after they leave campus but we sure get yelled at about it and threatened with lawsuits. Were I live and work, a call from the school asking the police to patrol an area gets more response than a single citizen. The departments figure the school got a bunch of calls if they are bothering to call about it.

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