>>OK here's the real deal. The schools these 2000 keiki (children) attended are either closed or burned down from the fire. Those families are mostly in shelter in hotels in Ka'anapali. The schools they were offered to transfer to are in Kihei, Kahului, Pukalani and Makawao. That commute for school involves a 45min-1hr bus ride directly through the burn zone, and the Honoapiilani highway through the Pali, which regularly gets closed due to car accidents. Everyone on the west side has a story about being stuck on the central valley side overnight when the Pali is closed. These families have decided that they are not comfortable with their keiki being separated from them for that long, and it's damn well understandable why, given they just escaped death from fire in a very traumatic way. These keiki aren't missing, their parents know exactly where they are. And they're keeping them out of school until a suitable alternative is provided. The state and county know this, and they're working on a solution. And some of them perished in the fire and may have not been identified yet. But nowhere close to 2000.