Clever guy that Alice Cooper isn’t he? Encouraging all those parents to believe school’s out forever. Have you ever wondered how he came up with that song?

Now, I don’t know this is true but I’m told it came to him when he discovered he could get to the recording studio in half the time during school holidays.

It’s amazing how much easier it is to travel around during school recess. I travelled from home to an appointment today in 20 minutes when it normally takes around 40.

Obviously it’s not just school related as a lot of families are away on holiday but the absence of all those cars congregating around school does make a huge difference.

It’s not even safe to drive past schools at peak times. Apart from vehicles parked and abandoned all over the place you must run the gauntlet of stressed out, irate mums.

Caring responsible mothers that cuddle kittens and send donations to starving children in Africa acquire the vocabulary of Gordon Ramsey during the school run.

Let us suspend reality for a minute and assume that safe, reliable school bus services were provided and all those children found their way to school without mum’s taxi what a difference it would make to our roads.

It would make an even bigger difference to all those stressed-out mums who would no longer have to listen to the kids squabbling while fighting their way through the traffic.

Everyone’s a winner.

By Vic Barlow