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Owairoa Primary School and parents are very concerned with road safety at the school crossing and increasing levels of bad behaviour from some drivers.
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SAFETY
Concern over road safety at Owairoa amplifies By ZOE GARDEN
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oad safety concerns for Owairoa Primary School have increased exponentially in the past week. On Thursday June 3 concerned parent Ruth McLaren sent an email to the school with “concerns regarding road safety and the
behaviour of parents on Nelson Street”. She has noticed an “increasing level of bad behaviour”. “Yesterday was the worst I have experienced,” McLaren wrote. She was working on road patrol. One of the 10-year-old callers was “doing her job” when she was subjected to “parents yelling at her
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from the road side to ‘get the signs out’” and parents “swearing and banging their steering wheels” because the signs were out. “School is supposed to be happy and secure place for children,” McLaren said. “We are placing our children in a position where they are being verbally abused.” Her second issue is centred on
the illegal actions of parents dropping their children to school and road safety. According to McLaren, parents consistently do three point turns, stop on the yellow lines and allow their children to exit the car in the middle of the road. “Road patrollers can’t put their signs out when parents do this,” she said.
Owairoa Primary and other parents share her concern. School board of trustees representative Emma Nasimi told the Times this issue has been ongoing. “We’ve received complaints from parents and volunteer parents,” Nasimi said. “It’s escalated the past few months.” ➤ Turn to page 3
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