editorial

this year as the economy gets worse and worse, so does Eastview high school's parking prices for a semester long-piece-of-shiny-paper-pass. for the kids who have to scrape up what left over money they had from working in the summer to pay for it last year can be easily found taking a trek across the wet, awful smelling fields from the loser lot to the front doors of Eastview High School. Personally, last years dollar amount was absolutely ridiculous and now this year i am spending my senior year walking to and from the well known "Loser Lot" four times a day (my career development class just happily fits between getting to school and leaving for the day) instead of walking to and from school on pavement.

now this 2010-2011 school year the regular parking lots are looking less like a car dealership and more like a vacant lot with a car seemingly few and far between and the "Loser Lot" looking more like there is an overflow of people visiting the Apple Valley Water-park. For real, in my opinion, spending hundreds of dollars just to park your car and then leave it while you are sitting inside a building for eight hours a day is kind of a waste of money. Even though that money would help the school with budgeting and finances, there is, and was no possible way that a poor high school student like me was going to pay for a parking pass. What is making them so expensive? Could that dark grey-blue gravel us students park on be mistakenly mistook this year as some new kind of gold so that raises the prices? I do not want to know.

The high priced parking passes have not kept everyone from making a very spendey, and in my mind a very unrealistic decision though (unless your father is Bill Gates).