House right opposite a school

silverchair

alezzandro wrote: »

I expect during the day children spend most of their time in silence listening to the teacher. Apart from that, I love hearing kids chatting and laughing when they go to school in the morning (something like 15 minutes over 24 hours). They are joyful and happy, what's wrong with that?

I don't understand the hate and anger that some people have towards kids, like they had never been young before. Do you guys keep all quiet and silent when you go and get drunk in the pub? At least these kids are loud because they are happy!!!

Anyway, as someone already said, schools are the most quiet places during weekends, in the evenings and early in the morning, which is what really matters.

I wouldnt like to live near a pub either, but then again the OP isnt asking about living near a pub. Kids are not silent listening to the teacher during the day. They have active lessons.
As others have said before it depends on the school. You could live near to a school where the playtimes involve happy laughter. Or you could live near to a school where the playtime involves fighting & just charged noise.

scottishblondie

I've lived next to a primary school for nearly 8 years now, I don't think I would do it again in a hurry. It's an urban area that was built in the 1850s and the street is quite narrow with parking on both sides, coming to a dead end with only a potholed narrow lane as an escape beyond the school. There is no car park - only a small area where 4 teachers can park.

My biggest issue with it is that the majority of the parents use cars for the school run - even tho the catchment area covers a pretty small area. 8.30am and 3pm every day bring utter chaos and my own car has been bashed more than once. If I dare to return home around that time I have to either park up in another street or wait until the parents are gone as they wait in the resident's parking bays. I've also seen a couple of kids come very close to being killed!!

The children themselves aren't much of a problem during the school day, the noise from the playground doesn't bother me. However, after school they have a tendency to run into my block's garden and often fling litter into it - in fact there is constantly a lot of litter blowing around the immediate area.

I'm very glad that the school is moving to a much more suitable new site this summer!!

As everyone else has said - it really depends on the school. I'd recommend visiting the house at several different times during the day to get a real sense of what it will be like.

drusilla

I live within a horseshoe of 4 schools: nursery, infants, junior and secondary - and a church.

The main problem times are morning from 8.15 on (I leave by then) and 3-4.30. Teaching staff park outside the house as do parents. I tend to just block them (legally) in if they park blocking my drive.

The biggest problem for us has been the building work at the schools. They start driving up at 7am in the morning. Even on a Saturday.

The kids are no problem and my other half loves the fact that he only has to walk up the road for two minutes to collect the little un.

Foggster

I am going to assume that many who are responding to this thread have children who go to school..........

And some poor person is having to live close to the schools that their children go to! LOL

dander

The only way is to go and look. I used to live right by the an entrance to a comp, but almost all the kids that came out my way seemed to walk/use public transport - possibly the cars all congregated around another entrance. Once a year, they would have an open evening when the roads all around were filled with cars, but once a year is pretty liveable with.

The nearest primary school to me where I am now, the hazardous place to be at opening/closing times is the pavements - they're like the M25 with mums and buggys! Not so many cars though - it's a small town so I guess most kids live really locally to the school. I think cars and parking issues probably occur most in cities and big towns.

BakerBoy

My ex & I vowed we would never buy near a school, but we found a house we really loved and bought it. The school next to us was a rural primary, so could have been much worse. In the couple of years we were there we never had any issues with poor parking or noise.

I really can't imagine living next to a secondary school though.

alezzandro

silverchair wrote: »

I wouldnt like to live near a pub either, but then again the OP isnt asking about living near a pub. Kids are not silent listening to the teacher during the day. They have active lessons.
As others have said before it depends on the school. You could live near to a school where the playtimes involve happy laughter. Or you could live near to a school where the playtime involves fighting & just charged noise.

True.

I'm saying this because I have a primary and a junior school not far from where I live. Mums and kids come and go 3 meters away from my kitchen windows and, with double-glazed, I hardly hear anything. The noise, if any, comes from the traffic on the main road and I keep thinking this is should be more of a concern than kids talking.

My other comment on noises, probably less related to the OP's concerns, is based on the fact that schools opening times are usually contained in one's office hours. If I work 8.30am-5.00pm in an office that is certainly noisier than a house near a school, I leave before the first kid appears down the road and come back much later than the last light in the school has been switched off.

That's why I think some people are making too much of a problem out of schools and kids.

stormCat99

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Think of the up to fifteen weeks a year of blissful silence! Plus, as previously mentioned quiet evenings and weekends.

Alternatively, at a house not near a school, think of the 52 weeks a year of blissful silence and quiet evenings and weekends!

Davesnave

boots_babe wrote: »

Alternatively, at a house not near a school, think of the 52 weeks a year of blissful silence and quiet evenings and weekends!

You are welcome to your gated community for the over 55s.

poppasmurf_bewdley

You don't even have to be opposite the school to be pestered by the little darlings.

I used to live on the way to the local high school and was plagued by crisp bags, coke cans and even the little blighters sat on my low front wall snogging.

The headteacher didn't want to know, saying it was nothing to do with him what the kids did outside school.

Remedy? Lawn sprinkler turned on most mornings and afternoons covering the affected areas soon cured the problem.:T