There are three staff parking lots and three student parking lots. That is a 1:1 ratio of student lots to staff lots here at school. Although I’m sure teachers want their own space, why do they need enough space for twice or even three times the amount of teachers that actually attend this school.

Yesterday I had the great honor to walk up to my little Toyota Corolla, barely taking up a whole space in the cafeteria parking lot, to see an offensive shade of yellow tag underneath my windshield wipers saying “NO students can park in this parking lot. SECOND OFFENSE.” First of all, I didn’t realize that you could get a second offense without a first?

The only doors open during the school day are the cafeteria doors; however the cafeteria parking lot is staff parking only. Which means that students are unable to make a quick little walk from their cars to the doors. Instead we have students loitering outside which is a safety hazard.

So as I stood there fuming from my ears I looked around, noticing that not a single other car was by mine and half of the parking lot was completely empty. So after I come back from off-campus lunch I had to make the uphill trek from one side of the building to the cafeteria in the lingering hot summer sun. So I guess my question is: Do students really have to walk in the hot, freezing, rainy or icy weather to get back in our own school?

Now I’m not saying that the cafeteria parking lot should soon be overrun with a clumsy truck driver, age 16, but I don’t think that the two back empty rows of the cafeteria parking lot should stay unutilized. That’s prime real estate.