By Ethan Walshe
Managing Editor

On Monday, February 27th, the school committee voted to reinstate this year’s April vacation. This decision passed with 5-2 vote during last night’s meeting and reverses the previous decision to have school meet on April 17 and 18.

The school committee’s decision was influenced by the large rate of absenteeism during last week’s abridged February vacation. Westford Academy posted absentee rates of around 40% on both the Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.

Students at WA are for the most part quite excited about the reversal of the school committee’s previous decision. Many heard about it last night immediately after the news broke.

“I heard about it yesterday,” said junior Mike Sistare.

The excited sentiments are common amongst students this morning after hearing the news.

“It’s good to actually have a break,” said senior Leah Spinazzola.

Following last week’s shortened vacation, some students felt that their time here was not used well and that April vacation wouldn’t be any different.

“I was kind of indifferent [when I heard about April vacation],” said junior Aaron LaBarre “I wasn’t going to be here anyway and last week felt like a waste of two days anyway.”