"TWO HARBORS, Santa Catalina Island – One of California's last one-room public schoolhouses will soon close in this sleepy town, the latest victim of state education cuts.While residents of the island about 25 miles off the Southern California coast understand the math, life will change dramatically for the town's population of 150. Starting this fall, children as young as 5 will be bused more than three hours round trip over mountainous dirt roads to reach the island's only other school, in Avalon.
'It's a really long day for the kids, and my granddaughter Coral Rose, who just turned 7 today, would need to leave at 6:30 in the morning and not get home till 5 o'clock,' said Pam Deinlein, manager of the General Store and the first of three generations living in the remote town."
