Parents: Out Of Student Lots

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:32:12 GMT

By Riley Drew

Riley Drew
With the burgeoning student population and more student drivers than ever, there simply isn’t room for parents in the student parking lots.

With more students, comes more parents. Student drivers who try to leave school as early as possible feel the frustration of the traffic when they reach the parking lots. Part of the reason for the traffic is that parents skip waiting in the pick up line, and they drive over and wait in student spots to pick up their kids. Parents should not be able to park in the student spots because when they occupy the student parking spots, it makes leaving the campus that much harder. Parents park in the student spots in order to try and beat the traffic. With that in mind, parents are driving more with more haste and with less regard for others. If the parents did not park in the student spots, students would not be as eager to beat the traffic either. This would make the student parking lots significantly less hectic and more controlled at the same time. Students would also be able to leave the parking lot much sooner and could arrive on time to extracurricular activities or other things they may need to do. Some student non-drivers that get picked up in the student spots may argue that the parents in the parking lots do not affect the traffic, when in reality they back up the rows. Students have to wait to back out into the bumper to bumper line because of the parents rushing to get out. That is not even where the true traffic starts. Students then have to try and fit themselves into another bumper to bumper line,flooding with parents, where the actual frustration is expressed. All in all, if parents would remain in the pick up line instead of the student parking spots the traffic for student drivers would be significantly less.