Spirit Week Vlog (Day 1 & 2): Paly enthusiasm shines in first Spirit Week in two years
October 12, 2021
Back in action after a two-year drought from full-swing school spirit, Palo Alto High School’s Spirit Week is up and rolling. The Paly Voice took an inside look at the first two days of the dress-up-filled week.
![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)
