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2020-12-21 Home Front: Politix
Congress Should Invest in Internet Connectivity for Underserved Students
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-21 03:53|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 A modest proposal: little Violet Beauregarde doesn't need another pony or a high speed internet connection or more Google spyware / free apps installed on her MacBook Pro. She needs books. And a few notebooks and a box of pencils.

In particular she needs books on grammar and algebra and trig and history.

Old books, thick books, no-BS books that teach in great detail and clarity without any virtue signaling or identity garbage.

Save the ponies for Grandpa Joe to sniff. Enough high-tech make-believe learning. There's a reason that the high-achieving homeschooled kids run rings around kids from even the best and priciest prep schools, despite not having even 1/5th the per capita resources.
Posted by Rupert Ebbaish2253 2020-12-21 04:17||   2020-12-21 04:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Starlink
Posted by 3dc 2020-12-21 05:35||   2020-12-21 05:35|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the few good things of the FDR administration. Infrastructure has been a primary function of government, starting with the National Road.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-21 05:50||   2020-12-21 05:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I think each house should be no more than 1/2 a mile from a 4lane freeway as well.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-12-21 06:45||   2020-12-21 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 They already got running water. What more do they want?
Posted by Clem 2020-12-21 07:11||   2020-12-21 07:11|| Front Page Top

#6 
Posted by 3dc 2020-12-21 07:22||   2020-12-21 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Starlink is stupidly overpriced. This taxpayer is not interested in buying subsidizing it for people who can't manage their own fincances. Make a collection of all the existing cut and paste school papers available at the library and let the kids photocopy and hand in as their own. Much less bandwidth required, and hey, they learn where the library is...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-21 07:57||   2020-12-21 07:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Would be a great idea except the libraries are closed to the public. In south Georgia, you call and ask for a specific book; then you go to the library and they bring the book out to you!
Posted by Jise Elmeang4932 2020-12-21 08:23||   2020-12-21 08:23|| Front Page Top

#9 M. Murcek - Look at the FCC filing. You paid the subsidy already.
It won a rural subsidy in many regions.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/spacex-gets-886-million-from-fcc-to-subsidize-starlink-in-35-states/
Posted by 3dc 2020-12-21 08:32||   2020-12-21 08:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Price subsidized for test period is $500 for the dish and $99/month for service.
When all sats are online it will average 1GB down and something big up
Right now it's 80M to 160M down and about 10-30M up.
Posted by 3dc 2020-12-21 08:35||   2020-12-21 08:35|| Front Page Top

#11 ...but don't try playing your MMO on that. Even that small time lag will kill you.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-21 09:12||   2020-12-21 09:12|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm sure the next thing we'll hear is that Roblox is filled with way too many whipeepo.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-12-21 09:24||   2020-12-21 09:24|| Front Page Top

#13 My house outside Lawrenceburg Indiana, 25 minutes from Cincinnati has no internet except by cell. My house is on the top of the valley, if it was at the bottom I would have no cell service either. No cable companies will install due to distance from main road, I live on a secondary road.
This actually is a real problem.
Real books not hand outs would help but public schools only send out handouts.
Money has been appropriated to solve this issue but it somehow doesn't make it to the people who need it.
(I have running water because I paid to drill a well).
I am fortunate that I am wealthy enough to afford cell service for my internet, Jetpack from Verizon, but it's not cheap. Others not so fortunate are at a disadvantage.
People who have chosen (or not) to live in rural communities are not to blame that America has become so dependent on the internet. Reasonable accomodations should be made for them in light of the money thrown at inner city families.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2020-12-21 09:59||   2020-12-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

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