In hopes providing student drivers with more commodity, TCS inaugurated it’s newest addition to its campus, a pedestrian path that takes students into the school.

TCS students who drive to school, can now forget about the torturous entrance to school they once had to deal with. Now they will be able to walk to school freely starting on February 20, 2019.  

“The new path to the school has made my life much easier, now I can simply park my car outside the school and take the path to start classes,” Miguel Hurtado, 11th grade student, said.  

For many students at TCS like Emilio Mora, it’s the first time they can walk to school without the need of asking someone outside to take them inside. In the past, the school policy did not permit students to walk inside freely because of their security.

“Today was my first day walking to school this way, this was something I was not able to do before, and I really liked having that privilege,” Santiago Muñoz, 10th grade student, said.

In addition, students from various grade levels have felt the change, and it has become a popular topic amongst high school students that drive to school.

“I think that by far the greatest benefit the pedestrian path offers to students is confidence, now they can be certain about being able to enter school on time and not having to look out for other ways to go past the school’s security,” Paulina Bernal, 12th grade student and leader of the TCS student government, said.

In order to receive this benefit, student must sign a permission slip from their parents which authorizes them to go through the path, which eliminates the responsibility that the school has once students go in or out of the school’s borders, this had been a problem before.

“On Monday, I just approached the high school office and asked the secretary to sent my parents the from, they filled it out, they signed it and I was good to go,” Muñoz, said.

In fact, many students from TCS enjoyed the new path so much, that they have been taking the option of biking, or even walking to school. This has changed the students welfare in a positive way.

“Before I never thought about driving to school because I live very close, but now that I can enter school without the need of being inside a car, I am thinking about biking to school once in a while,” Daniel Guarin, 11th grade student, said.

While this new path may seem as a simple new construction, it has required tremendous planning which has evidently paid off well.

“After so much effort and proposals, the school settled to construct this path that has obviously made many students happier,” Bernal, said.