JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — “That’s the only place you can do it… inside a place where it has wifi,” said Brody Felchlin, 6th grader at Ruch Outdoor Community School.
What may look like your neighborhood coffee shop is now a classroom for 6th grader Brody Felchlin and his brother Kai, who’s starting kindergarten.
“There’s a lot of people by all the time. And then there’s sometimes music playing or anything and it kind of disrupts like zoom and stuff,” he said.
The Felchlin family lives near Woodrat Mountain in the Applegate Valley.
It’s a 15 minute commute to Ruch Outdoor Community School and another 15 minute commute to Goodbean Coffee in Jacksonville.
The family says they can’t get good internet access at home.
“We have a little bit of cell phone coverage, but once you drop past our house and go around… nothing. They put their cell phones in their drawers and then they’re done,” said Rachel…
