Where are Empangeni pupils' manners?

I’m hoping that the parents, teachers and headmasters of Empangeni pupils read this letter.

Every single day, I have to dodge young adults as they head to school.

Firstly, their parents are in the firing line. (I’ll get to their offspring later.)

What the heck are you thinking when you slam on brakes in the middle of rushhour traffic to turf your children off in the vicinity of their school?

What example are you setting, and how surprised will you be when they are knocked over as they are popping out from behind your vehicle like little pinatas?

Also, if I drive into the back of you as you slam on brakes, watch out, because I’m getting out of my car fists-first, you imbecile!

Right, now onto your little darlings.

Heads up - wearing head phones doesn’t make you look cool; it makes you look like a moron who’s wandering around in traffic oblivious to the hooting of cars as they miss you by millimetres.

Remember when you were little and were (hopefully) taught to look left and right and left again before you walked over the zebra crossing?

Well, surprise! It still counts.

Don’t cross the road wherever you feel like it, and don’t (delightfully) flip the middle finger to anyone who tries to teach you basic road etiquette. Lastly, school principals.

You’re required to ensure that your pupils arrive at school alive. Please encourage them to use your school drop-off zones safely.

Their disgusting littering on your pavements - which we have to drive past - as they walk to and from the nearby shopping centre is, to say the least, a huge blight on your school name.

You need to get this in hand as it is not the job of the community to pick up their rubbish, it’s theirs.

Might I suggest they have to pick up litter from the pavements of your school as a form of detention? FEDUP Empangeni