Clutch, break. Clutch, very little gas. Clutch, break. Stop, wait.

Wait some more. A lot more.

This isn’t the scene on Highway 305 during peak hours. It’s the scenario that plays out in the zoo that is the Kingston High School parking lot before and after school.

Twice a day, five days a week.

Personal vehicles — both students driving themselves or bumming a ride from mom and dad — clog the school’s major (only, really) artery the school district’s school buses use and it’s a tad … well, aggravating. Most of the problem is the massive traffic trying to make its way through a space not meant for that much traffic.

If only the solution were as easy to find as the culprit.

For the bus drivers who safely deliver high school students to KHS every day, there’s another issue acting as the icing on an already stressful cake.

The driving area is so narrow that no two school buses can drive through it at the same time. Unless one driver uses the sidewalk as a driving space. In the western world that sort of driving is generally frowned upon, as that’s the very curb where students walk behind the school, where they wait for their alternative transportation home at the end of the day.

Kind of creates a public health hazard.

As if that’s not enough to make bus drivers — and all drivers — stuck in the fracas pull their hair off the top of their head, there’s more. Traffic coming and going from KHS has to merge onto West Kingston Road. This is a well-traveled road, which causes legendary traffic backups.

Twice a day, five days a week.

This issue isn’t confined to KHS by any stretch of the imagination. The same thing plays out in elementary, middle and high schools all throughout the North End.

Often navigating the traffic requires more time and patience than most mere mortals have. Especially in the morning, when students are rushing to get to class and parents are rushing to get to work or their morning yoga class.

And yes, there would have to be a certain level of frustration for the school district, as this same issue is a constant source of conversation and aggravation.

When the parking lots were designed, the district did things properly — they consulted engineers, architects and a slew of experts, then did what they were told was the most reasonable and cost effective.

All we can do to make it better is practice patience and a bit of humanity or decreasing the number of vehicles on the road. See that red Ford that’s been trying to work its way out of the parking lot for five minutes before you got there? Let them go in front of you.

Also, if it’s not absolutely necessary that you drive to school to drop off your child, walk.

If your child can ride a bus to school, and there’s no compelling reason why they shouldn’t, let them.

Until there’s a better solution, that’s the best we can do.