Every morning, five minutes before first hour ends announcements
are made. Some of these announcements start with doctor Jones’ “special” notifications. Every student faintly hears some of these brief reports, which sometimes begin with doctor Jones “special” notifications.
About a month ago these notifications
were concerning students driving on the wrong side of the parking lot. Many kids laughed and thought nothing of this, as if they had never seen it occur.
“We’ve had a lot of problems this year with students driving down the wrong side of the road after school,” Mrs. Ralfs said. “Because they’re impatient and don’t want to wait in line.”
This lasted for about a week. The reason it was easily solved was because Officer Fitzgerald took visits to the parking lot after school to observe the students driving. Fitzgerald’s visits caused drivers to think before they made the wrong decision to drive badly to get out of school quicker. Associate principal Jack Ameis says that any student caught driving on the wrong side of the lot will be banned from driving to school.
“When Fitzgerald went to observe the parking lot we saw a definite change in the driving,” Ameis said. “The students were a lot safer just because he was watching
them.”
Though this problem rapidly came to an end, sophomore driving is a problem that is still occurring. Students who break the rule of no sophomore driving will be issued a ticket, and possibly lose their driving
privileges the next year.
“I think it’s dumb that 16-year-old sophomores aren’t allowed to drive to school,” sophomore Cat Pherigo said. “I mean I don’t really see what the big deal about it is.”