Over half of the school was late that first day when they closed gates from the teacher lot to the student lot with no warning what-so-ever. Students were shocked to see that the usual way they get into the parking lot had been closed off with no other option than to turn around; knowing they’d be at least 5 minutes late for their first class. What is the purpose in closing the gates before and after school? For the teachers benefits and for the parents who drop their kids off at school. The start of this change started with a parent who complained about the back-up on 140th, and thought it would really help the parents out by blocking that entrance to students who actually drive themselves and other kids to school. The administration decided that by closing the gate off to students who use that way to get to the student lot, it would help the traffic; for parents. So what about the students who are driving themselves and carpooling with other students, and trying to get to school on time? Many students feel that the administration didn’t think of the students while making this decision. Yes it helps the parents who are going through the “drive thru” to drop their kids off and get to work faster; but what about the students who are now stuck in traffic five minutes longer than usual? It doesn’t seem fair to only take the parents into consideration and not the students.
By leaving the gates open in the morning, it made two different entrances into the school; one being flagstaff which is convenient for the kids who live on the other side of Apple Valley by Galaxie, and the other entrance is the upper lot leading to the student parking lot. Closing the gates has made getting to school much more difficult for students; the traffic has backed up an extra two to three minutes, which is crucial for students who don’t leave until ten minutes before they have to be at school. It isn’t fair for us to have to change our morning schedule to wake up a half hour earlier than usual just because the school decided to block the extra entrance into the school. Hopefully administration will understand this, and go back to the way things have always been.
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