At around 12:10 p.m. a car hit a utility pole. A districtwide internet outage will last for the rest of the school day, according to school official.
Kaushik Kelkar, Junior
“I’m just doing my work. I’m in math, so I don’t need internet for my work”
Evelyn Kim, Freshman
“I can literally do nothing right now [because] everything that I do after I get my work done is on the internet.”
Saundra Truchard, Ceramics Teacher
“Ceramics is old school, we only need internet for documenting projects so we are lucky”
Chantal Seneviratne, 9
“I’m really mad because I cant do anything without the internet. My life depends on it. I was in P.E. It was a study hall, I used my phone for the hotspot. [My teacher] was also mad. I was doing my math homework, we always do study hall.”
Juliet Miller, Junior
“I just hope my grades don’t suffer for this.”
Emma Davis, Junior
“Very sad, I really wish I could be learning”
Emily Wieman, english teacher
“I’m really sad. I was still able to teach part of my lesson but part that really needs to be done we can’t get to”
Michaela Settlemeyer, PALS teacher
“I haven’t been coping very well. I feel very unproductive and frustrated because I had a timeline for our lessons tomorrow and now I can’t get them done. I talked to Mrs. Woodward [IT manager] and she doesn’t know why it’s down.”
Jaylie Crespo, Junior
“It’s pretty great. [We’re just] reading, braiding hair and pretty much doing nothing. [On longevity of WiFi being out] That’s concerning. I don’t want my teachers to [complain] about how we’re ‘three weeks down’. That would be annoying.”
Wyatt Haydel, junior
“I love it, I don’t have to do any work. I hate doing work so I love it.”
Liam post, junior
“I didn’t know it was down, I was playing clash the whole time, because I couldn’t do my assignment.”
Peter Nkala, sophomore
“I’m just letting it be. I’m working on my stuff that doesn’t need internet. When I get home, I’ll do my stuff that needs internet with my internet at home.”
Oran O’Brien, senior
“I honestly didn’t know it was down. I had band 2nd period, and then 3rd period I took a calculus test. After the test I just played Geometry Dash offline.”
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