Waking up to the loud buzzing sound of an alarm clock, you suddenly realize you overslept and are running late. Really late. You get dressed, grab a quick breakfast and jump into the car. Good thing your minyan leader is lenient with taking attendance. It’s a shame you have class first.

The administration decided to move minyan until after first period because, as Dean of Students Roslyn Landy put it, “so many students were late to school.”

A few months into the school year, Landy has found the switch to be extremely beneficial.

“The change has helped tremendously,” Landy said. “In the past, we had as many as 90 students late [per day], and now we have numbers in the single digits.”

While the modification has lowered the number of tardies, it was initially met with mixed reactions from the student body.

“Students understood that it would help [reduce] the amount of latenesses,” freshman Justin Marks said. “I think that everyone was just kind of annoyed about it so they didn’t really accept it.”

Landy recognizes the complaints students may have about the new schedule.

“I know that students don’t like the new schedule,” Landy said. “We understand that many students are unhappy because, in the past, they felt they could come late without consequence because they were missing minyan, and that was not important to them.”

However, with classes starting at the very beginning of the day, many students now feel compelled to arrive at school earlier.

“I’m not as late as I used to be,” junior Zoey Bennaim said. “It’s definitely motivated me more to get here on time, but it’s still difficult to adjust from how it was last year.”

Some students have encountered other benefits from the change, which can turn minyan into a relaxing period between classes. After getting used to the switch, Bennaim grew to appreciate it and the break it provided.

Junior Manny Ozur Bass, on the other hand, does not see minyan as any different from the rest of the school day, and is impartial to the new schedule.

“School is school, and minyan is part of that,” Bass said. “The change hasn’t affected me.”

The administration is likely to continue this policy next year.