HARTS, W.Va.—Just before 9 a.m., Hollee Blair sat in her boyfriend’s Toyota Tacoma in the parking lot of Chapmanville Regional High School and waited for attendance to be taken.
With no broadband internet at home, Ms. Blair, a 17-year-old honors student who plans to study nursing after high school, used her boyfriend’s iPhone to connect to the school’s Wi-Fi for an hour-long orientation over Zoom.
Pls use the usaid to get internet access in ur area they are ready to help u
Thank you for reporting on the digital divide! In Chicago, we put teachers on TV and broadcast lessons directly to students. Hoping to harness ubiquitous tech to make education accessible. Our second season starts Saturday, hoping to expand in future.
It’s unbelievable that it’s 2020 and we still don’t have a rural internet infrastructure.
IT'S disgusting what we are doing to our children. Open up the damn schools. People will get the virus and then get better. Covid is not a killer virus. Support YOUR immune system with a healthy lifestyle and get out there and LIVE!
MimZWay Support paulajean2020 and help change the status quo
America is a third world country in some places. Mostly deep red parts who vote against their own interests time after time after time.
Why is this presented in such a way that it’s someone else’s responsibility to get these kids internet? Personal Responsibility (a lost art due to liberal indoctrination) is what falls on the parents. It’s up to them to get their kids internet. No left wing article needed.
Trump’s America, no school, no work, dead.
OPEN THE SCHOOLS!! 🤬🤬If we can walk into a restaurant and take off our masks after we sit down at our table why can’t our children do the same in school? NO MORE MASKS!
Thats just so fkd up!
Why don’t they have WiFi? They would if rich arses paid a fair share in taxes! No! We have a kleptocracy: a gov’t whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to appropriate the wealth of their nation, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds!
Definitely White Privileged 😩😩😢😢
IS THIS USA ? Or is this Afghanistan?
Local businesses with wifi would do well to allow students to study there. Both need each other.
She is in her own home, wearing a mask under her nose. This picture couldn’t be more stupid.
Terrible
If they can't get basic internet then why bother with G5, surely it is better to get basic coverage for all than to mess about with new surveillance technologies unless of course that is the whole reason for doing it.
Inbreeding doesn't help with their learning ability either.
Could they get dish satellite?
i guess there is internet under water 🥴
in India unlimited 4G is roughly $6 a month. there's no reason the 3G networks can't be left online for consumers who need it, essentially if they're on public assistance. should be free with a free android phone. California already offers this however the bandwith is limited.
Btw just a fact: Huawei’s infrastructures are way cheaper than its competitors, but we should not use it coz these rural residents’ data privacy could be comprised by China government to harm US national security.
15 year old rockin a Quiet Riot shirt...that kid has already mastered music history
hey bloomberg why not help these folks instead of wasting a $100 mil on bunker boy...makes me sick that folks can make huge contributions as it could be used to help folks in need...
STOP SCHOOL, NO funding for schools or teachers! This WILL come to an end. This schooling at home IS NOT working!! IT is discriminating against those without internet! SEND the money to families, ALLOW them to HAVE ALTERNATIVES!! Tutors, charter schools, learning pods!
WHeRe aRe THeIR maSKS?!?!
White Privilege
McConnell is responsible. The Heroes Act needs to come to the floor and be voted on, amended, and revoted on. Americans are in need of government. In some states, like WV, the lack of access to the internet will hold their children back. Parents need to contact the Senate.
My country we're praying for strike to continue
If I couldn't check my Q drops from QAnon every 10 minutes on dial up I would just die
PRESIDENT TRUMP GFY 194,000X
Imagine being JeffBezos and being able to fix this for every kid nationwide without batting an eye. And then doing nothing.
Yet we spend 800 billion a year on the military so they can fight dudes in flip flops and dresses. Shows how messed up our priorities are
The police have all the equipment they need, though. And then some. We don't need to de-fund our police departments, but we do need to reexamine our government's priorities.
Starlink could be a solution. Saludos. 😉
The majority of children worldwide, don't have enough food to eat.
Taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens cost $300B every year Yet American citizens don’t have internet
But LeBron James is oppressed and they have privilege.
Open schools now.
This is criminal/how do you expect a workforce to remain competitive/wasn’t WV using 25 year old textbooks also
The root case: someone lied to the Americans that Covid will disappear quickly!
The Federal government has given billions to companies like ATT Verizon GetSpectrum and they don’t build the infrastructure for rural communities. Instead they spend it on stock buy backs and share holders.
One counties officials said they don't care about people having internet access. They can get satellite internet if they want it, they said. These people do not need another bill to add to their problems.
ShakiraSecurity What I have witnessed, there is no internet because of political fraud and local politics not caring and only worried about their own local power structure. Local politics laugh at federal and world agencies believing they are more powerful. Uneducated sociopaths out of control!
This is where America “while still in denial” is well behind developed nations on many many things....
J Denver made WV famous with his lyrics and songs, now covid19 makes WV miserable.
They are very industrious to gain resources and that is good.
NCFL Getting_Smart maybe just maybe students will appreciate their teachers more, now! Just helped my sister test drive her watercolor class for Monday on zoom_us edchat
Send them back to school.
Quiet Riot?
Not sure about WVA, but I know in Los Angeles, the Cty Health Director says she thinks maybe the teachers can get back to work after the election is over. 🙄
You can almost hear the yawning economic divide creaking open to divide the American public into have nots, have less, and have some.
15 year olds in 2020 listen to Quiet Riot? That's sort of awesome.
Blame greedy duopoly cable and dsl internet providers....
no internet? how can they even function? what do they do if they need to know the name of that guy who was in that thing?!?!
We need to do better for our children this makes life harder. And everyone isn't going to have a 4 wheeler and will miss a lot of school.
Welcome to a 3rd world country way of living. Some walk hours
The virus wave is ending; the pandemic by WHO standards ended six weeks ago. There is no longer a public health reason to be clobbering these kids.
But now they have 5G oh but that's not for everybody
Joe Machine, paging Joe Manchin....
Up to HALF of kids don’t have internet access. The very different sides of America. Haves and have nots. At least 1/2 of you have not. This is a great country?
JeffBezos Here’s a problem you could solve with your billions
How insane. This is what the hysteria is all about:
Starlink will change this!
Seriously, I had to walk 2 1/2 miles home from school everyday. BFD.
He has a 4 wheeler
Its all president Trumps fault. Orange Man Bad
How about WV just open their f’ing schools?
Why is FLOTUS. Not concerned about our children who have to endure such hardships. Because ....I DON'T CARE..DO YOU....
And yet we’re told that keeping schools closed protects these children
Reminds me of the free school lunch program.
Cristina_Doral 😟
Get them back to school then.
Broadband should be a public utility.
JoeDunman Pay everyone $2k/month to stay home, cancel all rents and mortgages and give all kids a 'gap year'
And the teacher’s unions refuse to open schools? How ironic, a liberal group, presumably a defender of the poor, that’s hurting mostly poor families....
That ATV costs more than 70% of cars people drive everyday all around the world
.WVGovernor , JimJusticeWV won't open schools fully, despite the extremely low hospitalization and death rates. Some students that are having to do remote learning don't even have supplies, let alone WiFi. Get them in school. His guidelines are directly harming the kids.
adamgoldmanNYT Welcome to the banana republic of the usa
This is very sad
And me getting excellent internet connection and watching twitter.
Good for them. It’s not easy being an online student. It’s even harder when you don’t have internet access.
America is not a developed country
Bless them🙏
Modi is be blamed as per our khan market gangs.
So get the kids back in the classroom.
I guess Antifa and BLM should rush in and demand white people that work for a living pay for it huh?
Open up the classrooms and get the kids back in school. The American Academy of Pediatrics supports kids going back to real school.