Valentine’s Day is on a Saturday this year, but like every student, you’ll still want you bring you girlfriend/boyfriend or just casual friend their gifts on Friday. As the day comes closer, you will hear announcements about what you can bring and why the front office will take them.

“I would love for y’all to keep them but I don’t think there is enough room in the class room for the gifts,” Tabitha Owen, the school’s secretary, said.

Owens collects over 60 gifts each year. In the morning, you can drop off your gifts to Owen’s office; her office is on the south side of the ram statue. She will give you a pass to come back and pick your gifts at 2:30p.m.

The school takes the gifts because some see it as distraction in class. A balloon flying around the room would be hard to see around when taking notes. Singing card in the middle of a pop quiz would not help a lot.

Isabella Scarmardi thinks that the process of talking the gift is unnecessary because most of the time the items are under the desk. Scarmardi is on the soccer team and is a part of the class of 2016.

“It’s like candy. It’s a distraction because everyone wants to take it and eat it, but all you have to do is keep it in your backpack,” Scarmardi said.

Some of the weirdest things that Owens has seen while taking gifts was just one flower and a signing balloon. Though Scirmardi’s freshman year she saw a bear that was a little bigger than the girl holding it.

“If you can get away with it then great, they will probably let you keep the smaller gifts, but if it’s really obvious like there are so much sparkles and lights or anything extravagant, ” Beatriz Dela Cruz said, she is a freshman.

While some students think that taking the bears and flowers are pointless, staff and student agree that the gifts can be a distraction if they are too big. But if the gifts are small, students may be allowed to keep them in their backpack.