SEATTLE — It’s been two and a half weeks since more than 17,000 High Line Public Schools students returned to classrooms after schools were temporarily closed because a The hacker was detected on the district’s network.

However, the hurdle is far from over. Since then, 35 schools in the district do not have internet or computer access. A current teacher in the district spoke to King 5 on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

“How should people do their jobs?” said the teacher. “Are they always writing things by hand and having them copy it? It’s been two weeks now that we’ve been teaching without access to a computer.”

The district is still asking students and staff to stay away from their district-issued computers and Chromebooks.

“And a lot of our students, they can’t necessarily afford to buy another device,” the teacher said.

He said district leaders are being kept mum about an expected time frame for rehabilitation.

“The hardest part is we don’t know when it’s going to end,” the teacher said.

The headache continues. For example, the teacher said staff could not access Google Drive where they were asked to write their syllabus.

The teacher said that we are not getting all the work we have done. “So we have to recreate.”

The teacher, who is salaried and not hourly, said the problem is adding hours to his workday.

“If I want to contact a parent,” the teacher said, “it might be half an hour of contacting different people to get information, whereas before, you know, less than a minute. “.

For more than half a month now, staff and more than 17,000 students in the district have been without internet.

“But what about some online stuff?” said the teacher. “What about applying to colleges? What about the FAFSA?”

The incident has raised many questions, but few answers.

“I don’t know if we’re going to get as hot as winter,” said the teacher.

The teacher said that the heating of his building is controlled by an unrestricted network.

“Is it going to be weeks?” said the teacher. “It’s already been two weeks. Another two weeks? Or months?”

The teacher added, “We asked them. They said they couldn’t–they didn’t know, or they couldn’t say.”

District staff on Thursday He wrote on his website that They have taken steps to allow them to “restore parts of their digital network,” but did not specify.

As the district works with state and federal partners to investigate unauthorized access, this teacher is asking for the community’s help.

“There are a lot of tech companies in the Seattle area,” Ustad said. “Can they donate hotspots to us, so we can work? One for each school? Or, you know, or two for each school?”

If you’re interested in donating technology to High Line classrooms, feel free to contact reporter Maddie White at [email protected], so she can point you in the right direction.