In rural NC, students gather at hot spots as state seeks larger broadband fix
Story Date: 12/22/2020

 

Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 12/20/20

The grandmother looked at a borrowed tablet and cried. The local school system provides free internet now, so that wasn't the problem. The problem, Evelyn Parker said, was she didn't have the first idea how to help her 9-year-old grandson or the 16-year old she serves as guardian to log on for online school. Thank God, she said, for the learning pod at First Baptist Church.

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