This past spring, when the lockdowns began, many rural districts amid the crisis had to resort to delivering paper copies of school work to students who didn't have Internet or cell phone service at home.
But they've had time to plan. Before COVID-19, Nevada was already trying to get every student outfitted withSo when McDermitt reopened Sept. 8 initially for distance education, Molina ditched those dreaded paper packets. She says some of her kids had to be reminded that, unlike in the spring, online attendance was not optional and work had to be turned in.Still, it's widely held that hot spots aren't a long-term solution for rural learning, especially since cell service can be spotty, if sometimes non-existent in more rugged areas of the West in particular.to build out broadband here, much like when the government paid to bring electricity to rural areas during another crisis, the Great Depression.
Myers Campos has been helping spearhead more Internet connectivity in urban and rural areas of the state, including the ambitious plans to issue every student a Chromebook and hotspot. She hopes the pandemic makes people realize that fast Internet should be a right, not a privilege.
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Suggest NPR funding be funneled to internet infrastructure.
We have internet deadzones in the city too.
Weird. Most of rural America’s farmers have GPS tracking for their equipment, and automated irrigation systems aplenty. But they “don’t have” internet? 🤨
NPR should lead in providing TV student education in economically depressed communities.
They're lucky that they don't have to read social media.
Then open up. Science says so.
Makes them safer from online pedophilia rings.
PUBLIC TV!! Why aren’t school districts working with their local PBS?
This is BS They have cell service with net
We also don’t have COVID outbreaks, so we could just go to school like normal, but the gubbament sucks at making sensible decisions. And rural areas have no riots. And a more affordable cost of living. And less traffic. Cities suck.
DiplomaPriv4All diplomaprivileg
You can’t learn from the grave. You can’t teach from the grave. You can’t nurture from the grave. When we are safe to teach in person, we will. We will meet them, we are TEACHERS.
There are so many things they could do, I tried to get funding for an idea ScatterNet which would basically create a smart mesh of devices that would create internet routes, even frequencies between AM and FM could be used for low bandwidth internet...
Why is this still the case? In America...I am dumbfounded
NPR: beta 💉🧠
In 2020 with the pandemic, climate, racism & economic crises raging, how will youth become critical thinkers, gain authentic scientific knowledge & one day become informed voters for justice & climate action, without internet access?
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature
Give children books. This is not a hard problem to solve.
Gotta get that SpaceXStarlink online!
'they should just move' - ppl against dc statehood who also 'support' rurals
Why are rural schools even doing distanced learning? I’m seriously wondering
Just as the GOP wants it. Less information available = dumber people = less informed voters = more republican voters.
Free internet service with our family seizing power in America and beyond. Read my tweets please. -CP Shogun
The internet is a utility and anyone who thinks otherwise is making money from it not being one.
Thank you SO MUCH for bringing awareness to the digital divide. In Chicago, we put teachers from CTULocal1 on TV & broadcast lessons directly to students. Similar programs are in place in Houston and D.C. Would love to connect & discuss more!
Defund NPR......free WiFi for all, instead!
Shocking outside the bubble....
A country that flourish on online business in all aspects of life is dragging to invest in the same thing: providing internet.🙄
mark6sx Farmers For Gigabit Internet unite !!!!
President Obama wanted to connect every part of the nation, for this reason. But you all had to have your orange headed tax cheat.
Obama and Hillary tried to get broadband to rural areas, but they keep voting GOP. Let them learn the hard way.
According to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 14% of children ages 3-18 don't have internet access at home. More than 9 million schoolchildren face difficultly completing assignments online:
Big media companies have a lock on everything and won't allow any communication to happen without their control over it. Actually, it is the politicians they pay off that allow this ridiculous, criminal situation.
Me
Sucks to be them.
Less educated people leads to more vulnerable and easy to be exploited citizens. And sleazy politicians love this.
This is a huge issue in our district which isn’t even all that rural. It isn’t even about internet affordability, it’s about a complete lack of infrastructure. And students without access are falling behind.
AKA, heaven.
Needs to be treated like electric
Or affordable or usable internet. My son made it through 12 years of school, a few years back, with no internet as we lived rural. Yes, there we a few times had to drive to the closest McD's for internet.
Thanks, capitalism.
JaniceWright14 You cannot move all people forward intellectually without the right tools. Children need to 'tools' in order to achieve; otherwise the knowledge gap will continue to widen.
Keeping schools closed is the best way to kill opportunities for upward mobility for kids from crummy homes & communities.
They wouldn’t have power, the telephone, or regular mail service either without a government mandate…...but socialism is bad
SpaceX Starlink to the rescue! Coming soon to all sorts of rural areas near you.
Schools need to adapt to their student's capabilities.
I remember during 2016 when a Dem platform for a federal strategy to expand high speed Internet into rural areas. It was met with a conservative new cycle about how “the elites” self-righteously believe rural communities lack simple modernities.
The glorious free market at work, except for the part where the government has given billions to Internet providers to expand access but they never did.
I remember when Obama tried to get broadband to all Americans. Also remember when GOP undid the regulations that would enable that.
I remember people discussing the perils of the digital divide 20 years ago. And that was when the internet was something of a luxury. People lacking reliable internet today is kind of a travesty.
The solution would be to open the schools
Only a third? Seems like more...
Broadband optical fiber and 4G networks cover 98％ of rural China in 2019.
My kids have been homeschooled for years and we don't use any internet for it other than to order curriculums or an occasional history movie. All that's done paper pencil and books
Is this a benefit or a detriment? I mean, if they want the benefits of a low population, low density, remoteness... that also comes with consequences.
It should be noted that rural America is Trump's stronghold and believes his 'fake news' mantra.
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