The parking situation at NC drastically worsens daily. Cars park alongside curbs, on islands, blocking entrances and exits, yet no apparent resolutions appear. If a student pays the necessary $50 to receive a parking pass, the administration should not expect students to race to school to receive a parking spot.  

The school holds the responsibility of ensuring that students who buy parking passes find somewhere to park. Students run out of options as far as parking and end up parking across the street, which takes unplanned time out of their mornings and may cause them to report to class late. The student should not be punished for arriving to class late if they arrived to school on time, but lost time searching for a spot.

Parking passes funnel money down the drain. Why should students pay a whopping  $50 each semester without insurance of a parking spot?

Even through the apparentness of this issue, no solutions or additional parking options come forward. Yes, students receive tickets and that should stop them from driving to school without a parking pass, but even if those students did get a pass, they would still not find anywhere to park.

The amount of money students provide the school for parking clearly neglects to go towards parking crises such as this. So where do the funds truly go?

Students cannot even leave the school because cars and even the school cop lack places to park cars aside from spaces blocking the exits. Students leaving for minimum day who cannot wait for the parking lot to clear up before leaving stay stranded.

A senior NC student, Cassidy Babcock, who has minimum day, faced the extreme faults of the parking situation first hand.

“People parked their cars in the middle of the road where you are supposed to get out. There is no where else to park, so that was their only choice. While the cop was giving out tickets he also has to park in the middle of the street, blocking the way to the entrance. Nobody could get out which caused chaos,” Babcock said.

NC needs to step in and fix the issue; the school holds students responsible for any chaos cause in school, and should hold staff responsible for chaos in the parking lot.