I'm a member of our conseil d'école and at our last meeting an issue was raised by the head teacher regarding the safety of the children entering school in the morning and after lunch now that they no longer had an administrative assistant. It was decided that the safest thing was for the children to enter by a side gate. A decision I wholeheartedly supported.
This was before I tried to take the Twinks to school when I discovered that the zebra crossing did not go to the pavement and in fact the children would have to cross the road directly into a car parking space. I raised the concern with the head teacher but as the building itself is the responsibility of the mairie I duly trotted off to the mairie to discuss my problem with the dangerous parking. They were very helpful and promised to tell the Adjoint in charge of Travaux on Monday and get back to me.
Two weeks later when I was in getting cantine tickets I was delighted to learn that he had looked, and my idea for a solution had been voted in by the Conseil Municipal, and the work will be carried out shortly. I don't think that this would be possible in the UK, either to be so reactive, so quickly or even to feel I'd been listened to. Bonne soirée..
