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by Ellie Dahl
Parking passes for students are not new at NS, but recently tickets for parking violations have spiked.
NS has issued 182 parking passes so far in this school year. Outside of those 182 students, around 20 parking tickets have been given out. If students don’t have a pass, they will be fined, with fines ranging from $10-25 for parking on school property without a parking pass.
“My only problem is if the teachers can’t find a spot because the kids are in their parking space. That is just wrong,” said Teri Anderson, an attendance secretary at NS. “Because we who work here should be respected and those parking lots are only for faculty.”
Students’ parking in the faculty parking lot makes it difficult for teachers at NS. Anderson is adamant that students respect their teachers. To her, that is what this policy is all about. While some disagree that this is important, she wants to make sure everyone is safe.
Many students, however, don’t agree with the policy.
“I had to drop some stuff off for the welding teacher, and I left my car there, then Teri gave me a ticket,” said Jacob Millet, a junior, when asked why he got a ticket.
The question is, do we need to be enforcing this policy or is it just a waste of time?
“I think it’s a waste of the school’s time and money,” senior Sierra Howlett said. “I understand if the cars are in the teachers’ parking, but if it’s in any other parking we don’t need it, People are going to park wherever they want anyway.”
Most students seem to understand that parking in the staff parking lot is not very respectful. The real question is why they need to go through the trouble of buying parking passes and possibly receiving tickets without one.
“The money goes into office supplies and to re-purchase parking passes,” said attendance secretary Tori Hansen.
Another important issue is that one of the only ways teachers know who is a teacher and who is a student is by the parking passes. That’s why they give out the parking passes, to differentiate who is a student and who is a teacher.
“I think the only time it would be necessary is like events. Because like oh, if you have a parking pass you’ll get closer parking,” said Howlett.
Howlett moved here from a different district in which the parking lots were monitored. They would have parking passes for work leave and sports but that was all.
