On Friday at Liberty, most classes either read a book, watched a movie, or wrote their assignments. The reason for that is the loss of internet connection at our school.

Jesse Graf, Liberty’s tech guru, discovered a cut to an Ethernet cord that allows us to have internet access and for the front office to receive phone calls. No one really has the information on who did it or how it happened, but there are some ideas as to what occurred.

Graf went down to Sommers Road and Highway N earlier today where the cable box sits, to locate the problem. He said that the Ethernet cord didn’t show signs of a clean cut and that there were “fiber spikes”, which are jagged edges within a cord.

“A squirrel or a snake could have chewed through it or someone didn’t cut the cord right,” Graf said.

Teachers were been having a tough time due to having no internet connection. It was the second day of Internet issues as there were outages also on Thursday.

Mrs. Gehrke, an English teacher at Liberty, said, “If it was out for more than 24 hours, I’d be in trouble. Ninety percent of my stuff is done on (Google) Classroom.”

She said that she realized how reliant she is on the use of technology. Many teachers have been playing movies because they couldn’t move forward with what they had planned for that day.

There have been no new advancements on why this has happened, but Graf did say that the internet and the phones should be up and working by Monday.