Complaints over crowded DHS hallways

As students elbow their way past crowds on the way to class or squeeze into a packed hallway for lunch, some have started to complain about the increasingly crowded DHS hallways.

With almost 2,000 students, DHS has more than once been referred to as crowded, whether it’s about the bike racks, the lockers, or the hallways.

Junior Chloe Jones has noticed the congestion. While believing rainy days increase the crowding due to limited indoor eating space, “the hallways are crowded anyways,” she said.

It’s not only rainy days that increase DHS’s crowdedness. AP test sign ups, yearbook pickups, and graduation ticket purchases have all drawn enormous crowds.

On April 26, a day when graduation tickets were sold during lunch, a crowd of more than 100 people waited for tickets, making it difficult for students to walk past.

However, English teacher Anthony Vasquez believes the weather is primarily to blame. “I’ve seen the hallways crowded mainly on rainy days,” he said.

Vasquez thinks the reopening of the closed MPR may be a solution for rainy day lunch overcrowding. “An MPR would help people spread out,” he said.

Jones, who eats in a classroom on rainy days, disagrees. “The MPR would be too crowded,” she said.