Traffic director cause more problems than solutions

It is quite a well-known fact that there are not very smart drivers bee-bopping around. “Third grade drivers,” my father would call them. After driving for about a year now, I have encountered my fair share of these. A vast majority of those encounters happened and are still happening right here at Sparkman. But what can one expect from teenaged drivers?
Many of the traffic problems are not only caused by incompetent drivers but the “officials” that preside over that road in the mornings and afternoons. On multiple occasions, I have been late to school because traffic was ridiculously backed up, causing me and multiple other students to be stuck in a line—right outside of the entrance to school—for up to 15 minutes. In no circumstance is this excusable as a repetitive event. The recent harsh winter weather did cause backup. Many parents probably did not want their children riding in unstable, freezing buses on icy roads. However, this situation has only been applicable once or twice, not five or six—how many times I have been trapped in traffic for what seemed like hours when the school was five minutes away.
One factor in the problem is the crosswalk. Students slowly trickle over it for five minutes at a time leaving traffic to congest. If the students at each end were to group up and then travel across as a big assembly, it would only take a few seconds for them to travel across it then the pressure of traffic would be extremely lessened.
Another factor is the ever-changing traffic director. Some of them may be in training—if so, then Sparkman is definitely not the place to test a newbie. We have hundreds of students and parents struggling to get through the parking lot to find a space or to drop of their kid on time. We need a highly experienced person with a clear way of communicating what he or she is implying. That means a whistle or at least actually turning towards the people being directed and making eye contact. We do not have that as of late. Not at all, not at all.
All I can do is hope that the lady we have right now will get better or be replaced before students start getting AAP for something they cannot control.

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