The before winter break drop off and pick up line had sophomores and freshmen being dropped off at the senior honor code lot, making it so just the juniors would go right off of Westfield and have a clear path to their parking lot.
Juniors sophomore and freshman preferred this line while seniors complained the drop off and pick up traffic ruined the privileges of honor code parking.
After winter break the school changed the area students were students who are dropped off and picked up. The change was not well received with most students. Now two months later the question is how much has changed in the drop off in the pickup line.
The first few changes that were implemented to the drop off line were adding multiple staff at the stoplight and when driving to the drop off line.
“So what we’ve done is we’ve shifted some personnel we’ve noticed that we had a lot of no right turn laying off Westfield in, so we put a staff member there to make sure we could keep people turning in right to alleviate Westfield,” assistant principal Nick Brewer said.
The senior honor code parking lot entrance would be moved to just make it so drivers and car riders were entering at the Westfield stoplight.
“I changed my route,” senior Nathan Walsh said. “I’m going up Meridian and coming down Westfield. It’s been a lot better for me just turning into the senior parking lot.”
The change was meant to help seniors who park in the honor code parking lot.
However, other car riders and drivers without honor code still struggle.
Students think that the efficiency off the line has not gotten better and is still causing them to be late.
“I don’t think there’s been any improvement,” Lorelei Hewlate said. “After car riders get dropped off, they get in the way of the student drivers.”
This has caused students to change the route to school and what time they leave.
“If I wake up a little late, I’ll get to school late and can’t get the first period on time,” sophomore Eli Rainey said.
Seniors have been less impacted by this change and not really needing to change their routes to school.
“It hasn’t really affected me at all,” senior Griffin Cheshire said. “I still take the same way, but there’s lots of traffic.”
The school will start to consider changes to the line once they start to decrease in times of how long the line takes.
“We’re starting to get to the point where I would say we’re at a normal level and that’s where we start looking at whether or not we really want to adjust our procedures,” Brewer said
While these next changes are unknown, students have some theories about what the school will decide.
“I guess more entrances and exits and then a designated way for buses to get out,” Walsh said.
Other solutions involve redirecting drop off traffic.
“I’d probably say get the parents to exit a different way,” Hewlate said.
Whatever changes, students hope a solution will come that will make entering and leaving school easier.
