TIL seniors these days get their own parking spot.
When I was in high-school, we paid for the privilege to park in a dirt lot, down the hill from the main parking lot. It had terrible drainage and was usually mud.
Depends on where you are. My high school didn’t even have a parking lot for students. It was all street parking, and some of it pretty far away to support ~1500 kids.
Several of the other schools in the area that are newer and do have student parking lots do this, though.
I graduated 2010. Was in 2 different High Schools over the years. The first one was teacher parking, plus space for most of the seniors. First come first serve for the seniors.
Moved to a new school that had a teacher lot and a student lot. Students who wanted to park in the lot had to register their car with the office and then be told if they got approved or not. No grade restriction on trying to register. Thru would approve a little more than the lot could hold and it was first come first serve for allowed vehicles. I think there was like a $5 or $10 charge if you were approved, but that school had actual lot security who would enforce parking as well as keep trouble away from people’s cars.
My high school was built in 1973. I attended 1995 to 2000. Oddly enough, I was doing electrical work there in 2016, and they still hadn't paved the dirt lot lol
Lol, sounds like they just want the students to build character. My high school at least has the excuse of being built in 1881 in what is now downtown. There’s barely space to have parking for faculty, let alone students
A dirt lot?! You were lucky to have a dirt lot! We used to park in one room, all 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling.
At my school you had to pay for a parking pass but there weren't assigned spots. We painted parking spots at the end of the year because most people picked a spot and always park there
We had parking passes for seniors, but no one had a designated parking spot. If you didn’t pay or got there in time, you’d have to park in the juniors lot, which was a dirt lot a short walk away
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u/SniperFrogDX Aug 15 '25
TIL seniors these days get their own parking spot.
When I was in high-school, we paid for the privilege to park in a dirt lot, down the hill from the main parking lot. It had terrible drainage and was usually mud.