The government has offered relocation and online schooling, but without cars or computers, parents say that’s complicated.
The destroyed King Kamehameha III Elementary School, in Lahaina, Hawaii, where classes were supposed to begin on Aug. 9.Two days after she watched fires consume Lahaina, first-grade teacher Mindi Cherry stood in the ashes of her classroom. King Kamehameha III Elementary School, where she had taught for 13 years, had burned to the ground, only its aluminum roof left behind.
Above all, parents and teachers told NBC News, they want their kids close by, surrounded by their friends who experienced the same trauma, and they aren’t ready to leave Lahaina behind. They’re fighting to keep their kids in school there. “We are awaiting results of environmental testing to be sure that the air, water and soil are safe so that we may return to campus,” said Derek Inoshita, communications specialist with Hawaii Public Schools. “The King Kamehameha III Elementary campus was damaged beyond repair.”
. But even with bus options being offered by the state, parents are worried about the emotional toll of letting their kids make the journey.Students and teachers who don’t want to leave Lahaina are pushing for other options, including using ballrooms of West Maui resorts as temporary satellite campuses. Cherry says she sees that as a far better option than online school, which her daughter is currently enrolled in.
“People are in phase one, they’re still trying to find each other,” he said. “The air still smells like smoke. Everybody’s just rattled.”
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