In response to the negative feedback of last year’s parking policy, administration quickly changed the parking system back to the old-fashioned assigned spots. With this change comes several student concerns including the waiting process and the location of the assigned parking spots.

Last year, students were forced to adapt to a brand new parking system which entailed the assignments of parking lots, instead of spots. These lots included the soccer, tennis, and shed lots, each lot issued with a certain color to differentiate students’ parking tags.

Instead of granting students freedom, this new parking policy spurred negative reviews.

“Last year’s parking was very inconvenient to students,” senior Olivia Reichley said, “especially when you arrived at school late because it would be so difficult to find a spot in the assigned parking lot.”

A new school year allowed for administration to change this parking lot chaos: not only for the convenience of students, but for the needs of security.

“In talking with law enforcement, we did not have the option to stay with the assigned parking lot system that we had last year,” assistant principal Mr. Jason Lilly said. “We need to know where students are specifically parked for safety reasons.”

Instead of a brand new system, the rules reversed back to the system from years prior.

The feedback from the system change has been mixed among the student body so far. The process of requesting a parking spot has been especially frustrating for some.

“I submitted my parking pass in the first day that we were allowed to submit them,” senior Jillian Grammer said. “The process took extremely long, and when I received my parking pass I was placed in the back of the parking lot, even though I submitted it first.”

Another concern that has brought up some contention among students is the 50 dollar parking fee.

“Our families already pay hundreds of dollars in taxes each year, and I don’t believe it is fair to have students pay to park at the school that they go to,” senior Anthony Lauer said.

The money students deposit for their parking spot does serve a purpose. Twenty percent of the money is allocated to student council funds, while the other eighty percent is put into the general fund for the district.

Some students feel the new system alleviates stress during the early morning rush to class.

“I like how there is no chaos,” senior Gabrielle Koehnlein said, “and you always know your spot will be open.”