LHS is adjusting to the new rules after the principal change this year. Students were not the only ones who felt the change.

Teachers now have a new rule regarding clothing, specifically pants. Fridays at LHS were days when teachers could wear denim to school if they so choose. Now, teachers have to pay $1 and have perfect attendance all week long to be able to do so.

Each teacher and department were given the opportunity to decide where the money is going.

“The English department has several teachers who lead activities outside of their instruction day,” said Sara Klawonn, accelerated English II teacher. “So we decided monthly to give our donation, our denim dues to an organization that is headed by an English teacher.”

For the month of September and October, the teachers together made their decision where the money for wearing denim will go.

“This month our money is going to the ELL program and study buddies,” said Klawonn. “Next month we are going to give the money to Oral Interp.”

Some departments put little to no restrictions as to where the money is going and gives each teacher a say in the matter.

“In the science department we’ve allowed the teachers to choose where they want to apply it,” said Joshua Smith, the AP Environmental Science teacher. “We have a variety of areas where it’s going to; anywhere from wrestling, track, football, basketball, the gamers club [and] student council.”

The new tradition brings opportunity to help out where the school needs it.

“We always wore jeans on Fridays and it’s usually a spirit wear thing but I think that it’s nice that it gives us an opportunity to donate to service clubs and certain groups here at Lincoln,” said Smith. “It shows the kids that we care.”