We have passed the point of ample parking and the days of not worrying about having to park at the bottom of the hill. Our 423-space student parking lot is completely full; sophomores are getting their licenses and wasting no time at all to get behind the wheel. So little time in fact, they have forgotten to buy parking passes. After school on Tuesday administration along with officer Kenny finally started to crack down on the violators. “We were looking for people who were parking with permits and handing out tickets to those without parking passes,” Liz Ries.

Next year, there will be big changes coming to how our parking lot is operated. Gone with the stickers that tell the whole world you are a student at Arlington High School. Now there will be a whole new parking pass that you will simply hang on your rearview mirror. This year many students have been given tickets for getting a new car or forgetting to put up their parking pass on their dash board, this new parking pass is hopefully going to change all of that.

This is not the only change coming to the parking lot, next year only juniors and seniors will be allowed to park in the parking lot. Liz Ries explains, “There is just too much student volume to have parking for every student that drives.” There are just over 1600 students that go to Arlington High School, and about half of that student base is of driving age. Hopefully, with these new changes to the way the parking lot is operated there will be less headaches for students and less tickets the administration have to hand out. Certainly, this is a step in the right direction.