It’s an otherwise normal day at school, students are dreadfully awakening from their slumber and getting ready to begin their school day the right way by starting it off with the pure insanity appropriately named the “Student Parking Lot.” With a name as grim as that, chaos is ensured.

With every year, some Sophomores or Juniors finally get their licenses and are very eager to be able to drive themselves anywhere they want, without their parents. Unfortunately, their eagerness can get the best of them and make them do rather idiotic and dangerous things. An extensive amount of responsibility is placed on these new drivers when they are given the privilege to be able to park in the clustered “No Man’s Land.”

Let’s be honest, is it really a good idea to give a reckless teenager who just got their license an almost four ton metal death machine?

In previous years, not only was there the dangers of the student drivers themselves, there was also the parents which would drop off their freshman and possibly sophomore kids in the student parking lot. Despite what common sense might dictate, the parents weren’t any better drivers themselves.

Parents, it’s called a blinker and it would be highly appreciated if some time was taken to repeat that lesson in driving school.

Another factor to consider in this whole hazard is teenagers and their phones. They are almost bounded by flesh and bone to their mobile device, the urge to update their twitter about how it is a war crime to be given too much homework on one day is apparently too much to withstand for this generation. It’s common knowledge that texting while driving is a just a fatal accident waiting to happen.

At this point, it seems very normal to me to be mere inches away from being hit by the face of a speeding car. Responsibility and safety must be top priority to student drivers, but knowing student drivers, it isn’t because teenagers have never been known to be careful or safe drivers.