The North Vancouver District plans to hire paid passage guards for elementary schools following an increase in the poor driving behavior of parents during the department and the collection.
Rob Dale, the traffic safety coordinator for the elementary school from Montoyal to North Vancouver, Global News told several narrow calls outside the school.
“Two years ago, the director of the time … was so concerned about the behavior of the traffic that she saw in front of the school after seeing three very close calls in the parking lot and in front of the school that she went out and she spent two weeks trying to calm traffic, trying to slow down people, trying to modify people’s behavior, “he said.
“And during these two weeks, people swore it, people threatened it. She had a lot of abuse. And as a parent of four children from this school, I told him about it and I decided that I am intensifying and I would try to help. »»
Dale said it was a demoralizing experience.
“Today, for example, we had nine offenses and today it was a good day,” he said.
“We dropped a few people right in front of the aisle. Some illegal U rounds. We had two people in speeding. We had people who deposited in areas constantly. And two parents decided to drive directly into the staff and drop their children in the staff field, which does not look like a big problem, but when they retreat from these places and there are many children who Walk in the parking lot a lot, you know, these are situations that we do not want to create. »»
Dale said he feared that it was just a matter of time until a child was touched.
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He said they needed more volunteers and more people working to coordinate the deposit and collection of schools.
“In 18 months, I am the only one to be voluntary of our school,” added Dale.
“We have 280 students. So, if we cannot bring people to volunteer and many people are not comfortable with it, many people are not comfortable with a confrontation, many people are not comfortable standing in traffic. So I think yes, in the end, each school should have a security plan. And if this security plan involves crossing guards or paid traffic control people, then that’s absolutely what we have to do. »»
Dale previously said that they had a parent who was driving so dangerously that another parent parked his car, chased the other parent in the school and an altercation occurred inside the school between them.
He said that in another moment, a parent was driving so dangerously that another parent stopped his truck in the middle of the road and came out and it almost ended with a fight in front of the students.
“I think the most worrying behavior is the parents who are ready to risk their children,” said Dale.
“Every day (we have) parents stop in front of school and they will take their child, who may be in kindergarten, in the first year, and they will tell them to travel two traffic lanes to go to school. “”
Mountroyal has a deposit area that Dale said that he had designed in consultation with the district and that they send a newsletter each month with updated traffic information.
Lisa Davis and Mahsa Khoshkhesal are traffic coordinators for volunteer parents in Cleveland Elementary in North Vancouver.
They told Global News that it was a similar story there.
“Everyone has to bring their children to school in time,” said Davis.
“So we tell them what the rules are. And you will always get people who, they think that the rules should benefit them. And everyone needs to get their children. And so we just try to be consistent.
She added that they force parents to park and drop their children at school in the invalidity area.
“I had a gentleman who almost overthrew me,” added Davis.
“Barely a few days ago … They retreat on the sidewalk and then take a tour in the U, as in the middle of the section here where there are children who walk.”
David said that she came out to tell the man not to do that and she said that he had almost overturned it and then rushed on the road as if he were bored.
“I understand all the time,” she said.
Khoshkhesal said the parents had shouted when they put their children.
“I told the lady that she could not yet deposit, and she started swearing me as from the start, shouting,” she said.
“Another gentleman last year told me that I was in power to tell them where they could or cannot park.”
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