As teenagers, we all anticipate the day we earn our driver’s license, right?  It’s our ticket to freedom. As soon as we turn 16, we are sure to drive immediately to the MVD to get that rectangle piece of plastic that means so much.

Perry High School, home to nearly 3,000 teenagers, has an incredibly high number of students receiving their licenses, which means those same students will want to drive themselves to school. Exactly how many parking spaces are available for the capacity of our school?

Ask any student – and any teacher who has to park in the student lot – and they will tell you that trying to manuever in the west parking lot is like a salmon swimming upstream; a salmon who is dodging kamakazi parents in SUVs while swimming upstream.

Parents, you are not students (remember, the title of the lot is, eh-hem, the student parking lot). The kind folks who designed this campus had you in mind – when they created the parent drop-off lot on the east side of campus.

Where is school security? This school is over seven years old – why is this still an issue?

Parents should be prohibited from using the student parking lot to drop off their kids; it should strictly be for students. The student parking lot is already busy enough, parents should not be able to make an already busy morning chaotic by stopping in the middle of lanes to let little Johnny or Sally out of the car.

There have even been many occasions where parents park in a student’s assigned spot to drop off  their child. Thank Mr.- or Mrs. Idontcareaboutanyonebutme. Now we can’t park, can’t get to class, can’t proceed with our education.

With the amount of students trying to rush into the parking lot just minutes before the bell rings, we need to be able to get in and out quickly. This can happen, if the school makes parents follow the rules.