Explains Math Teacher Emily Haugh, the driving force behind the event, “Jeans for Teens is running all of December, as long as we’re here, until Christmas Break. Any staff that wanted to participate donated to our in-house charity, the Care Closet, and they’re able to wear jeans as much as they like in December.”

This sounds wonderful, but it raises the question of what the Care Closet actually is. “The Care Closet . . . it’s an idea of getting resources for any kid who needs them in school,” said Haugh.

These resources can include anything from basic school supplies, to clothes that students can wear to job interviews, to food. Simply put, “Items that people need when times are tough.”

Such an idea does not dawn on a person overnight. Haugh first started thinking about the idea at the AVID conference in San Diego that happened this summer. Said Haugh, “The strand that I went to was culturally relevant teaching, and what I recognized was that one of our greatest discrepancies, here at school, is the range of income and level of poverty that people face.”

Even after the idea was fully formed, Haugh had to actually get approval to hold the event. “I brought [the idea] to the administration,” she said, “and they had me talk to Krista Kern, the school social worker. She had already started the student care committee, who did some similar things, did little care packages for kids who were struggling. They try to do something nice for them. So I hooked up with Krista and the student care committee, and it tied together seamlessly. It’s been great.”

The drive has been a resounding success, having raised over 1800 dollars. Said Haugh, “I am in awe of the staff, their generosity, and their willingness to help. We have so many wonderful young people at this school, and we’re going to be able to do even more for them now than we were able to before. Thank you for caring so much and loving our students and wanting to make their lives better.”

One of these students is Senior Jordan Prynce. “Throughout the whole summer, it wouldn’t let me log in to my email or Google Drive. I didn’t know why,” she said.

Early during the school year, Prynce was finally able to access her account again. “I went on,” she said, “but everything was cleared. I didn’t have anything up to that point. Everything I used to have was gone.”

Such an event is naturally frustrating, and an explanation is usually desired by anyone affected. Prynce never received one. “They never told me what happened. I have no idea why they couldn’t find any of my stuff,” she said.

However, there was obviously a reason for the sudden loss of data. Mat Nelson, the distict’s Director of Technology and Information Services, explained, “There is a driver that we use for identity management (IDM) that connects our user’s Infinite Campus, Server Drives, Destiny, and Google Apps for Education. This summer an error that was beyond our control occurred and there were three users that lost their Google Drive files. Efforts were made to recover the files, but in the end we were not able to recover them.”

Now that it’s become apparent that Google Drive is not infallible, it’s important to remember that there are other places to save data. “Errors can happen, and the only way to keep your files completely safe is to back them up periodically,” said Nelson.

For those considered about these errors, Nelson included a list of steps that can be followed in order to backup the contents of your Drive elsewhere, which is shown below.