Prior to her work with the academy, she was chief operating officer of akta Pharmaceutical Development, which was founded by her husband, Dr. Originally from West Virginia, Tennant worked in Ohio before moving to Raleigh, where she met Vaickus, who also serves as the academy’s curriculum operations solutions and marketing officer. It’s not working the way that it is and it’s frustrating for teachers, it’s frustrating for parents, but it’s most frustrating for our students who aren’t getting what it is that they need,” she said. “I’ve seen the brokenness in our nation’s education system. When Sheree Vaickus pitched the idea for the school to now-head teacher Sarah Tennant, they were excited to explore how Bald Head Island Academy could be different from a traditional public school.Īfter working as an educator for over a decade, Tennant believes the academy can have a positive impact on the education system. Her 5-year-old daughter will be starting kindergarten at Bald Head Island Academy this fall.Ĭo-founder of the academy, Sheree Vaickus, knows getting children to school every day is difficult for islanders. O’Connor is happy that her children can finally stay in the community for their education, and will be able to spend most of their time on the island. That’s one thing we were really dreading, if they were going to have to go to school because especially with young children it’s really difficult for them to behave on the ferry,” she said. Each day of school requires at least two ferry trips. To get her children to preschool in Southport twice a week, O’Connor currently takes the ferry, a commute she said is challenging. Ona is often a stormy place, and thus maybe a place insurers would really rather avoid.A mother of two young children, O’Connor said she’s long hoped a school would open on the island. Norwegians, meanwhile, may be amused by how the people in the ad seem to speak English on Ona, instead of the local dialect, and by how gorgeous the weather was when the ad was filmed. And it’s probably very flattered that it’s suddenly getting quite a bit of international exposure. It’s a popular place in the summertime, reachable by boat or several ferries from other islands and, eventually, the mainland. So the answer to the question “Where’s the Allstate Island?” that’s been raised by some of the ad’s tens of thousands of viewers on YouTube: The island is Ona, and its lighthouse is called Ona Fyr. Instead it’s part of a chain of islands off Norway’s coast in the Møre og Romsdal district, roughly located between the cities of Ålesund and Molde. There’s no mention that the island, where a young man is shown driving through some spectacular coastal scenery, isn’t located where the American company would likely have customers. So, if you don’t need to drive very much (on a small island, for example) “you’ll save 50 percent.” Instead, Allstate’s message literally drives home the point that its insurance rates can be pegged to how much you drive (standard practice, by the way, in Norway). The company, Allstate Insurance, doesn’t identify the island that’s instantly recognizable to many Norwegians. That’s some of the Norwegian mainland in the background. The small island of Ona featured in Allstate’s ad doesn’t involve much driving, and instead is best known for its historic fishing village and lighthouse. The buzz around the ad, though, seems more fixated on where the picturesque island is, rather than its promotion of lower insurance rates. A small Norwegian island and its characteristic lighthouse have featured prominently in a large US insurance company’s advertising campaign this fall.
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