2024 is a year of new changes, especially for public high schools. What will get students excited for school? Not tests of course, but a new ride! Scooters for schools are the new craze.
As research shows, scooters are THE best way to get around campus and I truly believe that they should be implemented in all public schools.
These eco-friendly and cost-effective transportation vehicles will brighten up one’s day. Just imagine the feeling of waking up from bed every morning and instead of walking lethargically and lugging your heavy backpack to school, you get to have a sweet new ride. Whether it is a Razor, Micro, Globber, or Fusion, your scooter will take you places, even if it is just to school.
If you have a fear of your scooter being stolen, do not worry as it will be branded with your very own name. Imagine the embarrassment when a kid named Max steals Daisy’s new ride and scooters around with her name embellished in the front. If students have any type of consciousness, that itself will be enough to prevent them from taking each other’s scooters.
Passing period time. The short-lived moments of bliss between classes to hang out with your friends before heading on to your next period. Passing period is so short that it makes many students late to their classes! With scooters, this problem is effectively solved. Now, your ride will allow you to get to class quickly. No longer will the passing period time crunch haunt you. You can take your time getting to class while enjoying the fresh breeze through your hair.
However, some people believe that scooters don’t pose an effective solution for transportation.
With about 2000 students at Irvington, you can just picture the scraping of the wheels against the concrete of each scooter.
What about traffic? The cafeteria line itself right now is filled with hungry kids, who are not using scooters. When scooters fall into the picture, students can easily bump into each other. The freshmen and senior hallways will even experience worse and traffic will consistently accumulate. Yeah, not the best for safety.
Let’s not forget to mention that the risk of horrifying scooter ankles is high.
Imagine this: Your blade unforgivingly jarrs through your ankle. Pain immediately shoots up through your leg. Your ankle swells up into a sickly blueish/purple color. You scowl at how you let your scooter do that to you because that is the WORST. TYPE. OF. PAIN.
With 2000 students x 1967 scooters (to account for lost scooters) x 613 untied shoelaces x 4000 ankles, that leaves us with about 9000 scooter ankle possibilities. Ouch.
These drawbacks leave us to understand why our schools don’t operate on these swift vehicles; to protect students’ safeties. At the same time though, I believe that scooters pose an innovative idea to raise students’ spirits. Who knows what new innovations will make their way through in the future? It starts with ideas with scooters for public schools that can perhaps lead to floating hoverboards for students!
