He who sees, but is not seen

For a long time, I have had issue with the way this administration runs the school it has been placed in charge of. Everything from security issues to adaquete education priorities.

The administration has a seriously skewed sense of perspective when it comes to what is important in the school setting.

Somehow, keeping students out of the staff parking lot takes precedence over kids skipping class to go get stoned in the back woods. This is, unfortunately, a serious problem that plagues us.

They tell us to come to school and get an education; they tell us to come to school because it’s the law, it’s what’s best for us, it’s what’s best for our futures. But when we are here, they are more interested in protecting their own interests than those of ours.

Schools are not businesses. The people who work here are not in it to make a profit. They are, or at least should be, in it for the kids, because they genuinely care about what we do and where we are during the day.

But it seems that the longer they are here, the more that is crushed from them and they find themselves hating every kid in the school (Mrs. Burris) or just not caring one way or another about the kids (the security).

Yes, my car got towed today. And it is the catalyst event that prompts this tirade against this school. I have long had issues with the parking situation at Evergreen High School; they pretty much screwed the pooch when they got rid of senior parking and put in all those portables. Then, they took what was left of senior parking and made it staff only parking, forcing all the students to cram themselves into that tiny parking lot between Cascade and McKenzie.

I choose to go out to lunch (because I hate the food they have here; see how everything is connected?) during the day, because as a senior I have earned that right. Last year, they gave us an adaquete amount of time to get our food and return. Now, when I leave, I return back later (on a shorter lunch schedule) and am forced to make a choice; late to class and get in trouble with the school, or park in the staff parking lot and get in trouble with the school? It is what one refers to as a ‘Catch-22′; damned if I do, damned if I don’t. I decided that parking in the staff parking lot was the lesser of the two evils.

But as it is clear, the adminisration disagrees vehemently. What this tells me is that they would rather I sacrifice a proper education in lieu of the staff having their precious parking spots.

‘But wait!’ say they, ‘why don’t you just not go out to lunch?’

It is a right given to the upperclassmen of this school. We are not a closed campus; at lunch time, if you are an upperclassmen and have a car, you are free to go out to lunch and purchase higher quality food. This is a right I have worked hard to earn as a senior, and not one I am going to sacrifice because of a policy the administration has set in place.

What this all boils down to is priorities; the administration claims to be here for us as students, but have failed to show us that that is truly what they are here for.

I intend on sending an e-mail to the principal about this very subject. I just don’t want to take it anymore, and I don’t want those under me to deal with it.

Fucking school.

I don’t understand why you need to lie to me. Or, more importantly (and probably more accurately), why you need to lie to yourself.

Why hide it? It’s not that you can’t love me, or won’t love me.

You do love me. You love me and that scares you.

If only you read this blog.

We are refusing to bow down. We are refusing to back down. We are refusing to take it.

We are soldiers of the revolution.

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