Did you have to pay for a parking pass in high school?

I was going to drive to school last week but I was told I need a parking pass. If you do not have one you can get towed which costs hundreds of dollars as the school makes you pay for the expense. The parking pass is $100. My school's parking area is HUGE. We have four parking lots and one of them is always empty. Did any of you guys have to deal with this crap?

Yeah it was like $80. I don't see how having to pay for parking is a big deal. It helps give the school money and you can always park outside of the school if you don't want to pay it.

Nope, but I had to at Uni, as there weren't many spaces and a lot of people wanted to park there.

Can't blame your school for wanting free money though.

Yeah it was like $80. I don't see how having to pay for parking is a big deal. It helps give the school money and you can always park outside of the school if you don't want to pay it.

Pirate700

Yea if you want to get towed and have to pay $300 you can.

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Yeah it was like $80. I don't see how having to pay for parking is a big deal. It helps give the school money and you can always park outside of the school if you don't want to pay it.

xXCombatWombat

Yea if you want to get towed and have to pay $300 you can.

I don't know. I couldn't afford a car.

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Yeah it was like $80. I don't see how having to pay for parking is a big deal. It helps give the school money and you can always park outside of the school if you don't want to pay it.

Pirate700

Yea if you want to get towed and have to pay $300 you can.

Which is on campus, which you have to pay for.

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Yea if you want to get towed and have to pay $300 you can.

xXCombatWombat

Which is on campus, which you have to pay for.

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Or you can park where you're allowed to park...

Pirate700

Which is on campus, which you have to pay for.

Nothing legal, no.

They attempted to have parking passes last year. Everybody hated the idea so NOBODY bought one and they could not do anything. To get back at us they cut the four lanes of traffic leaving the school into 2 lanes so it takes 10 minutes to leave the parking lot if you arent in your car 45 seconds after school is over.

Yeah, but it was only like $25.

Yes, but in high school it was only like $25.

A parking pass for university, on the other hand, was $200. I just parked nearby and walked.

I know that in high school the parking pass was part of the "school fee" which included your locker/parking pass/year book or whatever else. In Uni it's outrageously expensive here though because it's downtown Toronto and parking is just ridiculous, put simply lol.

yeah, but it cost like $1 so nobody really cared.

Another question, Did you guys have to pay dues? Every year I have to pay a certain amount of money to pay for stuff during senior year. ($15 freshman, $25 sophomore, $45 junior $100 senior.) ??

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Which is on campus, which you have to pay for.

xXCombatWombat

Nothing legal, no.

Technically it wasn't the school's call so students parked there anyways and called the school's bluff. A year later the church parking lot was officially the school's parking lot. I just parked at a friend's place who lived close to school and walked from there.

My point is, there are ways around those parking passes.

Most people don't park in our parking lot, just on the street but sometimes they block of the sides of the street so kids have to park farther away to encourage them to get parking passes.

yeah. but there were always an excess amount of parking spots, so some people wouldn't buy one but they would park at the very back, and wouldn't get in trouble. i bought one though, cause i didn't feel like having to walk for several minutes to get from my parking spot to the school.

Yup. When my brother bought his, they were $25, which is reasonable, but the next year they upped the price to $40 and then $50 my senior year. The high schools around us had passes for less than $10. >___>

I don't remember how much it was, but I did have to pay for my spot.

They attempted to have parking passes last year. Everybody hated the idea so NOBODY bought one and they could not do anything. To get back at us they cut the four lanes of traffic leaving the school into 2 lanes so it takes 10 minutes to leave the parking lot if you arent in your car 45 seconds after school is over.

Dawq902

No and that's stupid.

Think around JR year they brought the idea up which quickly got shot down by protest & petitioning..

My parking pass was $10, adn there is nowhere surrounding that you could park your car because my school is completely surrounded by forest and gated private propery with one single road leading out to the main road.

If you wanted to park in the parking lot, yes. I would just park near the school and walk the rest of the way though.

No. Parking was free in HS.

On top of that, I didn't have access to a car, I didn't have my licence, school was walking distance from my house, and the school board paid for my bus pass.

I didn't have a car back in high school, but the parking passes were like $20 a semester or so if I remember correctly.

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Which is on campus, which you have to pay for.

xXCombatWombat

Nothing legal, no.

I get free parking. :D