After seeing students in past years walk over policies set for parking on school grounds, faculty has since decided to increase the surveillance over the parking lot. While the school has elected to maintain the same rules regarding how the campus’s roads and lot should be utilized, student drivers will likely notice a surplus of tickets given out and an increase in the number of rule violations that are caught due to tighter enforcement.
Recently, school staff have sent out a multitude of emails concerning the student body of the parking precautions that they should be following. Deferring from standards in previous years, the administration intensified the enforcement of these policies. Principal Amy McAnarney noted one reason for why the school has changed how they support these regulations now.
“In the past several years, probably since before the COVID pandemic, we haven’t had a security person to drive around the parking lot very much,” McAnarney said. “We felt that with our limited personnel, their time was maximized better in the building, so we had them in the building. This year, we’re putting one person out in the parking lot — not all day, but during peak times to help enforce the school’s parking and driving policies.”
From a student’s perspective, senior Halas Kober recently obtained a ticket for violating the pull through policy, and mentioned how little the school had pressed students who disregarded the rules in the past.
“Previously, the [faculty] didn’t necessarily care if you pulled through. As long as you were far enough away, they wouldn’t drive out that far and check if you had. However, now, they’ve definitely honed in on how the parking lot is being used more,” Kober said.
Moreover, many students had previously been unaware of the pull-through policy or had chosen to ignore it. However, after receiving emails stating that cars not complying with the school’s policies would be subject to towing after the third offense, talk about the topic ensued. Senior Justin Girard expressed his dislike of the pull through regulation.
“Pulling through into a parking spot makes it easier to get out, especially with a lot of new drivers, since more people are likely to get into accidents backing out,” Girard said.
Whether or not students end up following the precautions, the given policy is to conform with the rules stated in the school handbook and in the document that is signed when getting a parking pass.
