Every new school year there’s the one article published, normally by a senior, about the chaos that is the Senior Parking Lot. The points are always the same: The spaces are too small, the exiting process takes forever, and it fills up too quickly in the morning, etc., etc. Occasionally a Rebellion staff reporter may mention the handful of Juniors with out of control egos who think they deserve to park in the Senior Lot, despite the absence of a parking sticker. However, no one ever thinks to mention the other culprits contributing to the shortage of spots: substitute teachers, and other guests to the school.
Every morning, the spots are completely filled, but if you look out into the front lot during 2nd or 3rd period, you’ll see several empty spaces. A guest may park there for those two periods, and then leave the school after, providing empty spaces in the front lot. However, to the seniors forced to park at OMF, or who receive reprimands for parking in the faculty lot, seeing empty spots during 2nd or 3rd period that weren’t there that morning only infuriates us.
The general rule is for guests to the school to park in the Hazard parking lot, and for teachers and other faculty to park in their own lot. If substitute teachers are a part of the school faculty, doesn’t it make sense that they should park in the faculty lot?
Every morning, there are at least 10 empty spaces in the very back behind the gymnasium. Teachers parked back there often take up two spots, but it doesn’t even matter due to the abundance of space. However, when a senior rolls in late and finds no empty spaces in his/her designated lot, is he/she allowed to park in one of those 10 spaces? Of course not! Such blasphemous actions might make too much sense.