Why do skaters get so many haters?

By Alex Zlatev
I’ve recently started to take up the hobby of skateboarding and so far it has made life more simple. I can now get to and from school, much faster and I can now relate to a larger amount of kids. But it seems that at school, skating is frowned upon. For example, when I was in 6th grade everyone who had their skateboard was riding them in the yard having such a fun time. In 7th grade however, we lost the privilege to skate in the yard. Finally I’m in 8th grade class of 2020, and we can’t even bring our boards to the yard. It seems that over the years APG has looked at skateboards as if they were some sort of gang symbol, but in reality they are just another mode of transportation like a bicycle. Now if we bring our board we must bring it to counseling. This is a pain. The whole point of a skateboard is to ride it, to get from point A to point B faster. But ride on school grounds??? No. Now you might be asking yourself “Dude, why are you getting so worked up about skating, they stop you from skating because you could hurt someone else and yourself” and I would say:
1.Stop talking to yourself, you’re just reading the paper and 
2.APG resides on a hill, perfect for skating to the counseling office.

 The security guards stop us from skating down for, ‘fear of hurting someone’. The thing about skateboards is that they are loud, and I mean really loud, nowadays most cars are more quiet, so if someone can't see the board coming, they will hear it. There is also the fact that skateboards aren’t cars, we don't go 35 mph down the hill, we go at a nice 3 mph. And this whole thing about the speed and the guards and the office and the hill, wouldn’t even matter if we had a space in the yard that skateboarders could practice. Basketball has a space, Garden has a space, even the chickens have a space. Let skateboards have some space.