When snow is predicted in Delaware the inevitable happens. The little skill Delaware drivers do have is gone. Accidents are happening faster than you can ask your parents if school is cancelled.
So, I have a question for Brandywine. Why is this problem not being addressed?
Being required to attend school when snow is on the ground is frustrating as it is. Although the main roads have probably been plowed and salted, our neighborhoods most likely have not been. This makes it difficult as well as unsafe to leave neighborhoods and try to get to school when you don't even want to be going in the first place. But, if you do leave your neighborhood unscathed you are mistaken if you think you've put the worst behind you...
The Brandywine Parking Lot has been quite the controversy this year and its problems have been brought to attention many times (with nothing done about them). Whether its the ridiculous mornings or the frantic afternoons, the system is very far from perfect. Yet, the danger only doubles when snow has fallen. The mediocre plow and salt job on our parking lot is far from okay. With about one half of the drivers entering the parking lot being student drivers, the amount of experience required to safely navigate throughout the parking lot is severely lacking.
So, my question is this: If we are being forced to come to school in unsafe conditions isn't it fair to at least expect the parking lot to be plowed and salted WELL?
Frankly, I see it like this. We wake up, slide around on ice trying to get out of the neighborhood, coast on Foulk road at a whopping 20 miles an hour and then hope your Honda Civic can take on the capabilities of a truck in order to drive over the piles of snow in the parking lot. This is not just humorous, it is ludicrous. It is completely unfair to live up to the expectations of coming to school in these unsafe conditions in the first place but being forced to face these obstacles in the parking lot too is preposterous.
Hopefully, something will changed soon before someone's car does...
By: Brittany Caputo
- Brandywine Line Staff
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