Seems a bit over the top to me. Mostly for the reason of how disturbing it would be for the kid walking out of school and seeing his mum being cuffed and manhandled by the police. As the police WERE present anyway it seems they arent very organised in controlling the environment directly outside the school.
Schools in my area have a few volunteer parents, they wear officila little bright green TRAFFIC WARDEN jackets, place temporary barriers within a radius of the school gates and another volunteers oversees the out of radius traffic.. Seems to work well even though they have no official police related power.
She is of course an idiot, there are a lot of them around, they also operate outside of school boundries on a 24/7 basis. Another excellent reason to teach kids to be responsible pedestrians and NOT run out of anywhere when cars are around. Lesson one should be there wont ALWAYS be a policeman around to protect them.
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