It strikes me what they needed was a temporary tire-shredding spike strip, a sign (“Beware: Spike Strip”), and a teacher (“Terribly sorry, but you can’t go through here - there’s a spike strip. You’ll have to park on the street”). Guarantee you the sort of asshole that will drive thru a person will stop dead if they think their tires might get damaged.
Don’t know why that is so funny to me.
It’s really not… but I am still laughing. Does that make me a bad person?
Because, as noted, that is the staff parking lot, not a drop-off area. Presumably, the other parents have managed to cope. But not our boy here.
The teacher probably sat on/leaned on the car, thinking he wouldn’t drive forward. Of course, had he reversed, he could have done some harm as well. Bad form all round.
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So it’s ok for the teacher to literally sit on the hood of the car (possibly damaging it?)
While assaulting people is wrong, this teacher is not a police officer, and has no right to damage someone’s property because he thinks the rules are not being followed.
He should have passed the recording on to the police - I’m sure they’d have given him an ASBO or something.
Frankly, as someone who’s been the victim of physical abuse from educators, I’d be probably be seriously tempted to err on the site of driving forward and risking the life of someone acting out and damaging my property rather than reversing onto a busy motorway and risking my life.
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It’s going to be tough homeschooling from jail.
Well, the father’s name is Rainer and the school’s name is Winston Churchill, you just know there’s going to be some animosity at some point.
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Nobody was damaging anything until the driver decided to drive. Sitting gently on a bonnet is not the least bit damaging to a car.
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You joke, but from the video it seems to me that the driving seat might be on the left, and the guy “pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving without insurance and having no MOT”. Insurance and MOT are British things that somebody who brought his own (old-ish looking) car from the continent might not know about (or willfully ignore, thinking he’d be exempted by having registered the car abroad). This Rainer Schoeman is likely a German immigrant with a short temper, or that had a breakdown when faced with an embarrassing situation he didn’t know how to get out of (reversing on a busy road while driving on the unfamiliar side of the street). I can imagine the headlines in local papers, Farage will have a ball.
It looks like the teacher leans round to talk to the driver through the right-hand window, though. The car also appears to have UK-style number plates (no blue rectangle on the left like as in continental Europe).
Incidentally, coverage in Metro says:
Even his own lawyer described him as ‘arrogant’ and a ‘prime candidate to go straight to prison’.
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Um, well he might be a recent immigrant.
I can assure you though that even in Germany car drivers are aware that they should have insurance and that there is a requirement for your car to be checked every now and again.
I haven’t seen any of the usual suspects make any claims about his nationality as yet…
Definitely German then 
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Lol, that might have something to do with him losing the case 
(obvious sarcasm - the guy should have been jailed for longer, if you ask me; the defense lawyer did a good job in the circumstances).
This Schoeman must be a guy with problems on the upper floor, so to speak. Maybe the judge should have asked for him to be sanctioned under the mental health act.
I note the irony of a man (who apparently lives just over a mile away from the school with what looks like a perfectly safe walking route) insisting that he has to drop his child off right inside…a specialist sports college.
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Just for the non-UK people - I’m guessing that’s a reference to this:
but it could equally be a reference to plenty of other examples.
For context:
and the Lammy report referred to:
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According to the court testimony (I can’t watch the video at the mo), the teacher turned his back on the car and stood with his legs against the front of the car.
As several people have pointed out, that is the sensible way to stand in front of a car you are trying to block.
Why?
Because what happens when the driver moves forward is that the bonnet pushes into your knees making you sit down on the bonnet.
You then get pushed forward by the car rather than being pushed over and run over.
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The OP is about a UK incident, I assumed anybody following it would be aware of this aspect of life in the UK.
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(a) a judge can’t do that
(b) it’s “sectioned”
(c ) you may have noticed that our wonderful government has been saving money by not treating people with mental health problems, though I guess many Conservative MPs regard people who have no interest in others, commit acts of aggression to get their own way, talk to themselves and hear voices as being perfectly normal.
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Well since you made the point in a post also having to explain the UK school system, I assumed that might not be a safe assumption. 
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Have a bonus point for using the word twit. I haven’t heard, or used, it for too long. In a world of extremes, there is room for more ‘light’ insults.
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I believe they can:
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/mentally_disordered_offenders/
Imprisonable offence? Tick. Just need two doctors to say you’re mentally ill and would benefit from a nice spell getting ‘appropriate treatment’.
As you say - at present, a judge might struggle to find the budget to get two doctors or even to find two suitably qualified doctors.
And then there wouldn’t be a place available in any unit which could provide the treatment.
Hey ho - here’s to caring conservatism… 
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