I saw this story on the news this morning, but the piece was very short on details, so thank you for your explanation! It makes better sense to me now that I know the scoop. The problem with parents parking on crowded neighborhood streets and then walking their kids to the building is common in the two elementary schools where I work, also. It further congests the streets at the busiest times of day and isn’t fair to the homeowners (and frustrates service providers like myself) who can never get parking spots when they need them, but know that by the time they trek in from the boonies, half the parents will have vacated the spots they used briefly.
One of my campuses is in such a crowded residential neighborhood that the principal put out a directive to all faculty and staff a couple of years ago that, on one of the (narrow) side streets, we could only park on one side so as not to make traffic any worse. There were not any restrictions for the parents as in this article, of course, but I sure can understand the idea behind them (just not the threats of arrest, lol). There’s no telling what kind of complaints this school has had from the residents of the neighborhood, and this principal might be under pressure to figure something out. (She needs to go back to the drawing board, though!!)
I don’t understand the threats of arrests either. I have seen some awful parents in pick up lines. I went from being totally against the principal to being more sympathetic to her delima.