Cycling to School
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:48 am
I don't know where to post this because it may be about many schools.
My two eldest dc go to a comp with a total of about 1800 students.
They do not have lockers. My two cycle because 1) I can't afford the bus fare for 2 children and a third about to go, and 2) they want to cycle and 3) I want them to exercise.
This school has just introduced regulation uniform. My daughter has an old bike without a chain cover (we can't find one to fit). So she has ripped three pairs of school trousers (£18.95 each!) She has worn bands round her ankles but they've slid down (she's very thin) OR forgotten to wear one, and her new, rather flared, regulation trousers have torn. They look awful. She wore nice cheap non trendy black Asda trousers before (£7 a pair) for two years and none of them ripped (they weren't too flared).
Apparently children can go into inclusion for not wearing regulation uniform (although I've noticed lots of children don't wear it). To add insult to injury, she's just lost her school coat (£38). I refuse to buy new school trousers, we're looking for a new bike instead.
School suggest she cycles in different trousers and changes. Which is possible. But they have no lockers and she already has so much to carry. She plays the horn and manages to carry that. She does food tech. and has to carry that (food usually arrives home looking horrid, all mashed together), plus PE kit, and now, a pair of trousers). Oh, and she carries her bicycle lights, if she left them on her bike they would be pinched.
I feel that as we've had a cycle path built, the government are keen to encourage people to cycle, that school should provide lockers for cyclists. I'm tempted to contact someone high up in the school about this. I appreciate they can't provide 1800 lockers, but perhaps for cyclists? Does anybody else have the same problem? Probably not because so few cycle. We live 2.8 miles by shortest walking route - in practice you can't walk along the path as it's so overgrown and quite frankly, not many dp's would want their dc walking across a field. So it's just over 3 miles by road. Free bus pass at 3 miles. All very frustrating. Do I contact school or do we just somehow cope?
My two eldest dc go to a comp with a total of about 1800 students.
They do not have lockers. My two cycle because 1) I can't afford the bus fare for 2 children and a third about to go, and 2) they want to cycle and 3) I want them to exercise.
This school has just introduced regulation uniform. My daughter has an old bike without a chain cover (we can't find one to fit). So she has ripped three pairs of school trousers (£18.95 each!) She has worn bands round her ankles but they've slid down (she's very thin) OR forgotten to wear one, and her new, rather flared, regulation trousers have torn. They look awful. She wore nice cheap non trendy black Asda trousers before (£7 a pair) for two years and none of them ripped (they weren't too flared).
Apparently children can go into inclusion for not wearing regulation uniform (although I've noticed lots of children don't wear it). To add insult to injury, she's just lost her school coat (£38). I refuse to buy new school trousers, we're looking for a new bike instead.
School suggest she cycles in different trousers and changes. Which is possible. But they have no lockers and she already has so much to carry. She plays the horn and manages to carry that. She does food tech. and has to carry that (food usually arrives home looking horrid, all mashed together), plus PE kit, and now, a pair of trousers). Oh, and she carries her bicycle lights, if she left them on her bike they would be pinched.
I feel that as we've had a cycle path built, the government are keen to encourage people to cycle, that school should provide lockers for cyclists. I'm tempted to contact someone high up in the school about this. I appreciate they can't provide 1800 lockers, but perhaps for cyclists? Does anybody else have the same problem? Probably not because so few cycle. We live 2.8 miles by shortest walking route - in practice you can't walk along the path as it's so overgrown and quite frankly, not many dp's would want their dc walking across a field. So it's just over 3 miles by road. Free bus pass at 3 miles. All very frustrating. Do I contact school or do we just somehow cope?