Kaneland classes have grown to odd amounts of people. There are more students entering the school than there are graduating. As the class sizes get bigger it appears that the parking spaces don’t grow with them. This means sadly, it has become an issue with the amount of people being able to park in the lot.
Driving is an “upper classmen privilege” according to Dean Renee Grisch. Sophomores are no longer able to drive to school with the lack of parking spaces. How many juniors and seniors can possibly be driving to the school? Ever heard of carpooling? No one can possibly assume that all of the students driving are going to be driving to the high school all by themselves.
Now that we have several parking spaces that are not currently in use, “we need to have places to put the snow during the winter,” Grisch added.
Knowing that we have no buses after school, and after school activities take place with sophomores involved in them how do they depend on us to get home?
There are students who are here for hours after school ends who have to find rides home. If the class sizes keep getting bigger, what will happen to the rules of juniors and seniors being allowed to drive to the high school? Will it just become a senior privilege? As Principal Chip Hickman explains the changes of the driving rules he stated “it’s not fair to have someone pay for a parking space and only be able to park their parts of the year.” It’s like saying you can pay the normal amount to park all here all year except when there is snow. If it snows you can’t park here, and there won’t be another spot for you to temporarily park. Which we can all see isn’t fair. Therefore sophomores can’t drive to school. “Our desire is to have everyone be able to park who has the ability to drive, but we physically do not have the space,” Hickman pointed out. “It’s a parking space issue,” Grisch added. So the apology has been made but sophomores are going to have to take that bus just one more year. Unless of course, you get a ride to school from an upper classmen friend and leave some of us jealous. The rest of the student body, and that might be many of you, will be bused to and from the high school along many other students.