Two colors, one day.

Within Mayfield High School is a continuous, small-scale argument between choir teacher Brian Fancher and math teacher Trevor McGrath centering whether Wednesdays should be purple or orange.

Fancher said, “Honestly, it was when I had started teaching, I had a purple shirt and some purple ties and I didn’t wear them enough so I wanted to force myself to wear purple more often. So, because I like the color purple, I decided to dedicate every Wednesday to the color purple.”

A tradition was built within Fancher’s Wednesday schedule. He began to make a point of cheering on students who did wear purple on the central day of the week. Because of this, many of his students strive to wear the jazzy color in order to gain positive “points” from their music teacher.

Senior Michael Ribovich agrees with Fancher’s color choice. “I’m for purple Wednesdays because my favorite color is purple.”

Unbeknownst to Fancher, McGrath had initiated a unique dilemma for him. In this moment, purple Wednesdays gained a competitor.

Unlike Fancher, McGrath has a different reason as to why the comic feud began. McGrath said, “It’s mostly because Fancher and I are BFF’s and kind of like to one-up each other whenever we can.”

He continued, “I mean I’ve been doing the orange chicken thing like, wearing orange, for a while on Wednesdays and I think he more recently started doing the purple thing and it’s really just to make him angry. Honestly, it’s kind of the big reason as to why I do it anymore.”

While Fancher takes his Wednesday attire seriously, McGrath views the situation as a comedic endeavor.

“I was conversing with Mr. McGrath about it one time and he told me he was thinking of joining me in the celebration of purple,” said Fancher. “Then, the next day he showed up in all orange.
He told me he was thinking about wearing purple, but then decided to wear all orange instead in honor of ‘orange chicken Wednesday’.”

“It is solely because of orange chicken and I love it! I mean, cafeteria food you don’t think of it as being like tasty but that’s the one meal that I typically enjoy in the cafeteria so I support orange chicken and I wear it every wednesday. Orange!” McGrath said.

“Honestly I don’t typically push people’s buttons that often on purpose, um, but Fancher is a good sport about things.”

11th grader Annabeth Suchy is one of Fancher’s students who has been brought up under the perspective of purple superiority due to his influence. She said, “I don’t think I look good in orange so I’m always for purple when it’s those two colors put against each other. “

“Purple is better than orange and I knew about purple Wednesdays first.” Ribovich said.

“I could take things a little further and not be too worried about it. I certainly wouldn’t cause him any mental or physical pain if I can’t help it but I wouldn’t mind annoying him a little bit with it.” McGrath said referring to the advancement of the two teachers’ biased feud.