Personal Narrative: High School Should Be Paid

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Who is this in my parking spot? Where am I supposed to park? I can’t park in someone else's space and make them angry. I don’t wanna get a white slip from the office saying I owe twenty dollars for parking in someone else's space. I can't be late to class. I guess i'll have to park in someone's space and hope the office doesn’t catch me. If I do get caught I don’t have money to pay a ticket. I don't even have 20 dollars for gas. Just because someone goes to school and parks in a different space they should not be charged 20 dollars for it. What if they don't have the money.What if they don't even have enough money for gas. So they drive to school, so they don't have to ride the bus for two hours every morning. At the beginning of every year …show more content…
That's why i find it ridiculous to have to pay forty dollars. The school claims the money is going towards the upkeep of the parking lot. At Least that is what I was told. But in the last four years of my highschool career only one thing has been done they paid money to have speed bumps put in or did the government; i don't know? Wheres all this money going? Let's say 300 students park on campus and all pay 40 dollars. If you multiply 300 by 40, guess how much that is? That's a whopping and i mean whopping TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS why do they need that much money that on top of school fees about doubles it. It's beyond ridiculous that a school which you have to attend forces you to pay for parking or instead if you caught you get a twenty dollar ticket with the office forces you to pay or you can't graduate. However, many people still purchase parking passes and they still get tickets how you ask? Say if someone was parked in your space that you paid for you have no idea who it is so you park in another open space the office can give you a ticket for that and when you try to explain to them why. They don't care about your opinion; all they care about is getting their money. Okay lets add up money i believe school fees are 35 …show more content…
Also so you can tell if you have paid the fee it should be listed on powerschool. And to reassure everyone has paid. You should start a list for each grade and all student 16 and up who obtain a license should be automatically billed for the parking fee. Why you ask ? Because everybody knows if the person got a licence, they gonna be rolling up in a car at school sometime in the school year. I think that's a very good ideal plan and structure for the school. Another thing is School lunch it is so nasty nobody wants to eat it. And nobody wants to buy it stop charging or get some better food because we all know the government has enough money to pay for our food. BY the way i'm just putting this out there that i got mashed potatoes the other day and they smelt straight up like a gas station bathroom that is around 8 square feet which has a toilet that hasn't been flushed in 5 hours. I mean really? Come on, the one good thing offered and now i'm paranoid to get it. Get some better food.We all know the school can afford it. Better yet put the money that magically disappears from parking fees. And get some better food paid for with that. Do something for the students and stop making all of us hate school. The fees never end charging for prom that's crazy. Do it in the gym.

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