An emergency vote by the school board is being held on February 6 to decide whether to rent computers for the journalism class to finish the yearbook for “Yearbook Day”, due to a hacking that caused the school computers to be forced offline.

Yearbook day’s a tradition that has lasted for 22 years.  One day at the end of each school year the teachers release the seniors from class to pick up and sign the yearbooks and have fun before leaving the school.  

“MacWorld in Southside agreed to let us rent four Macintosh computers with the necessary software for $500 for three weeks.”, said yearbook adviser, Rodney Stephens.  “That’s an incredibly discounted price and much cheaper than what our yearbook company would charge us for a missed deadline.”

For the journalism class to miss their deadline would cost them not only more money, but the disappointment of most, if not all the students.  It would also be the end of a 22 year tradition.

“Whoever hacked into our system is bright.  They didn’t leave many traces.”, said district technology director, Ed Robles.  “I don’t think it was a student.  This is some pretty sophisticated hacking.”

The school wide hacking caused a great eye opener throughout the school.  It even caused a new security software to be installed on all the school computers and created a great problem for the whole school.

“We have to get our yearbooks before school is out.” said senior, Reggie White.  “Yearbook day is one of the highlights of senior year.”