By Camelia Heins
Students and staff were unable to use their chrome books and computers because the HBUHSD wifi was down this Monday. A cyberattack that shut down the HBUHSD Aeries server impacted all Windows devices also occurred earlier this week.
Here’s what FVHS students and staff thought about the wifi shut down and Windows malware, and whether FVHS relies too much on technology.
“It’s been kind of an inconvenience for most of my classes and I didn’t realize how many of my classes are like online until this happened. Now for most of my classes my teachers are starting to print the lessons out that are usually online. So, now it’s on paper. It’s a little bit weird. Even though with what’s happening right now, it is slowing down our lessons and stuff but when we do have it, I feel it’s really convenient and I think I prefer it better than paper,” freshman Kayleen Duong said. Photo by Katy Nguyen. 
“Yeah, I agree [with Duong]. I feel like now that the internet is kinda down for a little while, it’s kind of pushing our academics back. In my bio class we’ve been doing paper labs when we’ve usually been doing them online. I think [the school does] rely a lot on technology but I think it’s for a good reason because with technology, everything is faster. It takes less time and it’s kind of more convenient for teachers to use online,” freshman Ian Bui said. Photo by Katy Nguyen. 
“I kind of like it because we don’t have to do work and I actually prefer writing on paper. I can’t use my phone in class anymore so I have to stay on task. Yes [we rely too much on technology] because even our printers are not working,” junior Nancy Vu said. Photo by Katy Nguyen. 
“It wasn’t helpful. Stuff happens when we have technology and we just try to make the best of it. Well, you’re planning on one thing for your lesson and then you have to do something else and it made it a little more difficult because I was the Tech Resource teacher here but I’m still trying to help people out. So then, I had to worry about my coworkers and that everybody else is okay like not just take care of my own stuff. Students couldn’t use the network for a little while and that was probably inconvenient for them too. No, [our school doesn’t rely too much on technology]. Definitely not. There’s a lot of times I walk by teacher’s rooms and students are not doing anything on their chromebooks or technology at all,” English teacher David Theriault said. Photo by Katy Nguyen. 
“At first I thought it was an inconvenience but some of my quizzes and tests were postponed so I’d take that as an advantage. So it was sort of a half and half. We rely on our chromebooks for so much stuff like a lot of my classes mainly just use the chromebooks instead of books and paper. So, sometimes we had to revert back to books and papers like we used to. So yeah, that was a big inconvenience for me. I think that the Internet being down sort of revealed that our school definitely [relies] a lot on technology because it definitely changed a lot of my classes,” freshman Sam Goeller said. Photo by Katy Nguyen. 
“It was a huge difficulty in my part but I planned ahead and I had most of my lesson plans online before the Internet went down. So, it had an impact but not as much as an impact if I wasn’t prepared. I can’t print stuff. I don’t have access to my files. I can’t plan farther than the week ahead. But Aaron Tyson and Irina Protsenko have been incredibly helpful in helping us get back online again. If forewarned, we don’t have to rely on technology but when you plan on using technology and it goes down, then yes, [our school does rely too much on it]. But if we could’ve had some warning ahead of time then I wouldn’t have had to use technology. I could go less technology. Just tell me what you want me to do and I’ll be ready for it,” Chemistry teacher Michael Olsberg said. Photo by Camelia Heins.
