Scuola Crispi

Title: Access to the Scuola Crispi

Abstract: There has to be a better way to get kids to and from school.

Body: Firstly, I think driving to school in a city like Rome is as absurd as driving to work. Most schools should be within a ten minute walk of homes which would keep them human scaled, and if not, frequent public buses should shorten the commute. This is clearly not the case at my son's school. We gave up taking the bus there when they changed the route so it stops farther from the school. Thanks to the route change of the 75, which must have been the work of a true madman, to come home by bus we would first wait standing for it to work its way through the traffic jam of cars picking up kids, then go about 200 meters to the end of the line and wait again for the next bus to leave. Instead of enforcing the corsia preferenziale which was constantly blocked by double parked cars, the city gave up and moved the bus to a road with no bus lane.
The other problem at my son's school is the lack of organization or consideration when the kids leave at the end of the day. Of the three gates to the street only one is open. Parents (and grandparents and siblings, etc.) cram through this to get as close as possible to the door kids emerge from and then stop there waiting, hiding from view the kids as they leave. The danger of actually getting crushed to death is probably not so great as the problem of a parent and child both waiting pointlessly because they can't see each other, and then pushing their way through the crowd to get out.
Why this situation? Why don't parents simply stand further from the door, widening the circle so that everyone can see? We're not talking about rocket science here guys.