Verbatim: Students’ favorite holiday tunes
November 21, 2019
With the holiday season quickly approaching, The Paly Voice asked a few Paly students what their favorite holiday songs are.
Spoiler alert: Mariah Carey has a lot of fans.
Photos: Gracia Hmelar
![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-300x225.png)
