Tiny picturesque remote island launches recruitment drive for a new teacher - but it comes with a huge catch

A dream job has just opened up as a remote Michigan island best known for its solitude is looking to hire a teacher for it's four-children school - but with a catch. 

The Bois Blanc island in Lake Huron is home to about a 100 people and is known as the state's smallest school district. 

According to state records, the Bois Blanc Pines School school has never had more than five students enrolled at a time in the past decade. 

While working at this one to two room schoolhouse may seem like a dream, the island's weather conditions and lack of connectivity make it nearly impossible for the administration to retain any teacher. 

The Bois Blanc island in Lake Huron is home to about a 100 people and is known as the state's smallest school district

Past school teachers have found it nearly impossible to find affordable and weatherproof housing while also tolerating the harsh weather. 

There are also very few transport options as most locals rely on motor vehicles to travel many miles of unpaved roads and trails. 

The only way to reach Cheboygan, which is the nearest mainland, is by a car ferry in the summer and on a plane in the winter. 

As a result, year-round residents tend to stock up on groceries before the ferry stops going back and forth as it gets colder and then coordinate among themselves to buy plane tickets in the colder months when they need to go into town. 

The island also has only one small store/restaurant, one tavern, post office, fire hall, township office, a church and a chapel.

The Bois Blanc Pines School school has never had more than five students enrolled at a time in the past decade and is now struggling to find a teacher due to the island's weather conditions and lack of connectivity

The island also has only one small store/restaurant, one tavern, post office, fire hall, township office, a church and a chapel

Christine Hasbrouck, a teacher aide whose 11-year-old grandson is one of the students at the K-8 school told Bridge Michigan: 'I tell everybody, "We are remote Alaska without the mountains".

'That is what we are here. ​​And a lot of people don't understand that we're not like Mackinac Island. Our ferries don't run three-quarters of the year or all year long.'

Apart from the island's own challenges, school board president Cindy Riker also believes that it is impossible to find a teacher who wishes to educate students between the ages of 5 to 14 during the ongoing national shortage. 

'Our challenge now…not only because of the island but just because [of] the way that the teachers in this world are now, there's such a lack of. 

'Getting a seasoned teacher is probably out of the question,' she told the publication. 

The ongoing staff issue is becoming a huge concern for parents on the island as many worry about the quality of primary education their children are receiving 

There are also very few transport options across the scenic island as most locals rely motor vehicles to travel its many miles of unpaved roads and trails

The ongoing staff issue is becoming a huge concern for parents on the island as many worry about the quality of primary education their children are receiving. 

School board member Amanda Beugly explained that while she wishes to make the island her family’s forever home, she won't be letting her fifth-grade son and a seventh-grade daughter start a new school year at the academy without an 'experienced teacher'.

'I do think it’s such a challenging position that you do need to have that experience because you don't have the same support structure in a one-room schoolhouse that you would have in a regular school where you have other teachers you could run to for help,' the concerned parent noted. 

David Arsen, a Michigan State University researcher explained that if the district is unable to hire someone soon, it may turn to a certified teacher who works remotely and instructs students online - leaving a classroom aide to help students in person.