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We are working with a county in West Virginia that is 2 hours by car from Washington DC. 2 hours! The school officials have decided to do remote schooling. F
by tomohawk 6y ago
We are working with a county in West Virginia that is 2 hours by car from Washington DC. 2 hours!
The school officials have decided to do remote schooling.
Fully 50% of the students have no internet at all.
Another 30% have internet that is incapable of remote.
You might say that they're too poor. And that is part of it. But there are plenty of people with lots of money in DC and the surrounding area that would be interested in moving here or having a vacation cabin, but cannot buy internet access for any amount of money. It just doesn't exist.
The communication laws desperately need an upgrade from the 1930s laws on the books that regulate everything like it is a telephone invented in the 1800s.
- thehappypm 6y agoWest Virginia is a bit cherry-picked, it is by far the most systemically poor state in the mid-Atlantic, and it’s got immense infrastructure challenges due to the mountains. I sympathize with those people, but the vast majority of the US is doing better.