Over to you principal Asian International School, Thalakotuwa Gardens

Parents bring children daily to Asian International School at Thalakotuwa Gardens.

I have observed that they are very inconvenienced due to the following reasons:

(1) There is no parking facilities provided for parents who bring children to the school. There are three rows of cars parked and there is hardly any space for two vehicles to pass through.

Large buses, lorries and vans, large cars and three-wheelers create havoc at Thalakotuwa Gardens.

(2) As a result mothers have to get insulted by drivers as they cannot match their ways of driving or language.

(3) There are no Police officers to ease this traffic congestion. Parents themselves have to waste time begging specially van drivers to make way.

School Security Guards say managing school traffic is not their duty. One wonders whose duty is it then? Are parents supposed to control the traffic?

(4)Parents pay very high fees to this school. Most parents are reluctant to speak thinking that children will get indifferent treatment in school and the school continues to ignore the problem in a very unethical manner.

Please provide parking space for parents. For e.g. Elizabeth Moir School down Thalakotuwa Gardens itself and Gateway International School at Kirimandala Mawatha allow parking inside the school and there are no traffic problems at all near these two schools.

Another cause that worries every onlooker is that our children see and hear how people scold each other using bad language everyday. In this disorganised and unethical environment will these children grow up to be decent and grateful adults or will they become selfish, discourteous people who will do what they like ignoring the suffering of others as children follow the principal and teachers next to parents.

Food for thought to all concerned!

SILENT OBSERVER