Poll: Should parents be banned from driving to school gates?
After the new president of the Faculty for Public Health claimed that parents should be prohibited from stopping outside schools to drop children off, we ask what Star readers think.
Professor John Ashton said yesterday that if parents drive their children to school they should have to drop them off a few hundred yards away so that they get a small amount of exercise.
"One of the things we really should be doing is strictly prohibiting cars stopping outside school to drop kids off but have drop-off points, if at all, a few hundred yards away so at least the children get to walk a quarter of a mile each day from the dropping-off point – it would make a difference," he said.
Mr Poulton said while ideas to reduce childhood obesity are welcome, decisions on how children get to school should be left to parents.
Do you think that parents should be banned from driving to school gates? Vote in our poll below and have your say in the comments section below:
