Senior parking passes will be issued at the beginning of the next grading period.  According to assistant principal Brooke Weekes, 40 passes are awarded each grading period to students who meet academic, attendance, and extracurricular requirements.  “Parking passes provide an incentive to students who do well,” Weekes said.

Academically, the student in question must have at least a 3.5 GPA, improvement over the previous grading period, and no D’s or F’s.  The student must have perfect attendance in the and less than four tardies and absences in the previous grading period.  The student must be in a CHS sport, student government, club officer, or other extracurricular activity.

“(The best thing about parking passes is) I don’t have to walk up and down the trail, it’s a lot faster,” Senior Robert Clark said.  Clark currently has a parking pass, and thinks that the system can improve by allowing more students to get passes. 

Weekes agrees, “There are a lot of deserving students but we only have so many spaces.” 

Clark also advises seniors interested in acquiring a parking pass to pay attention to the announcements to know when to reapply.  Clark, along with many other students, believes that one of the bad aspects of parking passes is that a student can only have one parking pass for the whole school year.

Weekes said that if a student lies  or falsifies an application, they are disqualified from applying in the future.  She also said that one of the major negative things is that sometimes other people without passes will park in the students’ spots.  If such a thing does happen, the student with the pass can report the car that is parked in the spot without a pass to the school police.  By Tim Klein <[email protected]>