Every semester students are faced with brutal, unfair, life threatening situations as they attend the high school formally known as Princess Margaret Secondary School. It has been a growing concern that has just recently been brought to the attention of the media in order to find the solution. Grade 12 student told us " I cry myself to sleep every night knowing that I have to wake up and go to school the next morning."
As if waking up to be at school for 8:30 isn't bad enough, but once the students arrive at school they are faced with the first problem. Parking. The parking lot is far too small to comfortably park every students vehicle. Even though the parking lot could easily be expanded to fit all the vehicles by simply paving over the never used grass, but no, the government would rather sit back and watch them suffer as they are forced to park on the street and walk the grueling 212 paces to the front door. Or god forbid they have to park in the Skaha Lake Middle School parking lot. Oh the humiliation. The beady eyes of the SLMS students all staring are enough to make anyone break down and cry. The students must flock to the student parking lot in order to get a decent spot. When its all said and done the parking lot is so packed that students can't even do burn outs with out crashing into another vehicle. What has the world come to, complete anarchy?
Once in class the students are constantly in a battle with teachers regarding the use of cell phones in class. Stealth is the key, how ever the keen eye of the teacher catches even the slightest glance. "I pay $60 a month for my phone" cries an eager student "and I can't even use it when I want!" Such madness!
The along comes lunch. For what ever reason nobody knows how to place their trash into the trash bin. Through out the period a mountain of trash piles onto the tables of the common area, only to be taken down by the principal. Wait, the Principal? Yes that's right, the school has many custodians but for some reason the Principal is always cleaning up the lunch time garbage.
On occasion a class finds itself in the computer lab. Despite the teachers instructions everyone, always, ends up researching the latest news on Facebook, or playing games such as Jetman or Bubble Trouble. Yes the computer lab truly teaches life skills.
High school is truly the survival of the fittest. Other than the no zero policy, teachers always babying students, and skipping class with no consequence, yes it truly is difficult.
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