The (forty) teachers have spoken; with a 30-to-10 majority, the vote has been made and Friday, Feb. 20 will be a B day.

This morning, principal Cynthia Prieto sent an email to all the staff and faculty requesting a response voting for either of the days.

With three missed days from snow and cold weather–two A days and one B day–only two days were left in the week and the schedule had gotten complicated.

“Typically, we’re going to do whatever day the students thought [the next day] would be, so that would be an A day. That would be an A-A this week and then a regular next week. The problem is we only have two days this week and we have interims due on Monday,” Prieto said. The decision for today as an A day was fairly set in stone, so they let the teachers know that right away.

“When we sent out the announcement that today was an A day, I got about five emails from teachers. So then I thought, ‘there’s enough conversation about this; we need to make it democratic.’ So I shot an email out to the staff and I said ‘I will make my decision by this morning so whoever’s on a computer, answer.’ I think we ended up with thirty to ten Bs and As,” Prieto said. While some teachers didn’t have time to respond or were fine with the schedule either way, a few took the time to send in a response.

“I voted for B day because I haven’t see my B day kids in a long time and I want to see them,” math teacher Geoffery Estes said. He hadn’t heard the result of the vote and was happy to know it had swung his way.
Chemistry instructor Susanne Smith also voted for a B day.

“I felt that the numbers of B days I’ve had have been less, in the long run,” Smith said.
From the students, there are mixed reviews, depending on tests and study hall periods. Generally, the students are fine with the way the decision was made, although there is some frustration with teachers not voting for good reasons.

“I can’t quote [my teacher], but she was just like ‘I just wanted a B day so I didn’t have to give you a test and then [grade it] on back to back days,’” junior Valerio Aleman said.

Be the reasoning what it may, the teachers cast their votes the way they felt they was best.

“Everybody seemed to think, ‘can I see all my kids once?’ So an A and a B” Prieto said.