*Ring* *Ring* — a familiar feeling at 9:30 a.m. on a regular school day to leave first or second period and go to snack.

Yet on Feb. 11, during first period the bell did not ring, leaving students and teachers surprised. The bell did not work the rest of the day until it was fixed Feb. 12 during second period, but with last year’s bell system. The new old bells will not return for now.

According to Senior Administrative Secretary Susan Lockhart, our bells have a processor that is run by the computer. “It’s all computerized,” Lockhart said. “Our phones are connected; it’s the intercom.” According to Lockhart, the processor broke and the power surged. The District replaced the bells with the old bell system.

Students and teachers had varied opinions about the bells. “The whole classroom was confused, my first period teacher was shocked and did not know if it was okay to the leave the class,” said junior Reni Sahakian. Sahakian had to stay in his first period an extra four minutes on Wednesday.

Junior Saryanna Nazarian was happy with the old bell system being back. “I never liked the bells from the beginning of the year and I’m relieved to have the old ones,” Nazarian said.  According to Saryanna, “Mr. Kursinski says he liked the previous bells that were put in the beginning of this school year.”

Spanish teacher Lauren Hilmar-Braga said that she was comfortable with the changes in the bells. “The class left to snack a couple minutes late and only second period was late Thursday morning,” Hilmar-Braga said. She was used to the scheduler without bells. “It’s easy without bells,” Hilmar-Braga said. “I’ve been doing this for nine years.” English teacher Stephanie  Sajjadieh enjoyed the day without bells. “I liked not having it,” Sajjadieh said. “At first I was off and let the kids go late, but it’s a refreshing change.” Sajjadieh wanted to keep the change with no bells as “it teaches the students responsibility.”