Tiny school’s four teachers and 15 students may be stuck with online classes for the rest of the school year.
Hall’s students have been popping in and out of her online lessons since storms rocked Big Sur — and led to massive landslides — on Highway 1 late last year. More than two months later, half of the students at Hall’s school are still blocked from their classes, separated by immense levels of dirt, muck and rock.
“I try really hard, but I would say that no one is OK,” said Hall, the school’s kindergarten through third-grade teacher. “People are being pressed so hard. And that is definitely being seen in the kids.” For weeks in January, about 250 residents living in the 20-mile stretch from Lime Creek in the north to Ragged Point in the south relied on helicopter deliveries for essential items. They were blocked not just from the school but also their workplaces, health care centers and grocery stores. For many, going to the next closest school would mean driving as much as 45 minutes one way.
After a year and a half back in the classroom, the post-pandemic return to online learning was not a welcome one. Hall said a few students are struggling to keep up, and she has watched as one child’s internet has become so feeble, “It’s like she’s not even there.” For the last two weeks, the internet has been down at Pacific Valley, forcing Hall to teach from a hotel 30 miles south of the school.
Sage and his best friend, Ryder, used to go lizard hunting at the beach between their homes, but now they are separated by the slides. One day, Sage said he carried his mom’s phone down to the beach and called Ryder to include him in a virtual lizard hunt. As he scooped the “blue bellies” into a bucket, Sage angled the phone to show the squirming reptiles to Ryder and his little sister. It wasn’t the same, Sage said. But at least it was something.
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