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If you scroll down further in the article, interesting map of which places have high speed internet and which ones don't. Manhattan comes up the winner. SI and the Bronx, less so.
Over the past year, the pandemic has laid bare some of the deepest inequities in education. Chief among them: the digital divide between students with reliable internet access in their homes, and those without. Now, as politicians pledge to rebuild the school system better, and stimulus dollars create new opportunities to address long-standing problems, advocates for high-speed internet access for everyone hope solutions may finally be in reach.
More than a million New Yorkers don’t have access to broadband in their homes right now. When the pandemic hit last year, the number was even higher. As soon as schools went remote last spring, stories poured in of students’ struggles to get online. A teenager spent hours slumped outside her neighbor’s doorway trying to get a signal for her laptop. Kids camped outside McDonalds to grab Wi-Fi. Siblings had to take turns going to school on a parent’s iPhone.
If you scroll down further in the article, interesting map of which places have high speed internet and which ones don't. Manhattan comes up the winner. SI and the Bronx, less so.
Over the past year, the pandemic has laid bare some of the deepest inequities in education. Chief among them: the digital divide between students with reliable internet access in their homes, and those without. Now, as politicians pledge to rebuild the school system better, and stimulus dollars create new opportunities to address long-standing problems, advocates for high-speed internet access for everyone hope solutions may finally be in reach.
More than a million New Yorkers don’t have access to broadband in their homes right now. When the pandemic hit last year, the number was even higher. As soon as schools went remote last spring, stories poured in of students’ struggles to get online. A teenager spent hours slumped outside her neighbor’s doorway trying to get a signal for her laptop. Kids camped outside McDonalds to grab Wi-Fi. Siblings had to take turns going to school on a parent’s iPhone.
Yet half of Congress will still insist that broadband access is not an infrastructure issue, especially for rural America. If 1/8th of a city of this magnitude doesn't have access, imagine how bad it is in small states.
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Poor NYC with WiFi on every street corner. Think for a second about rural kids that have zero access to quality broadband. I'll cry a tear for NYC kids when they tackle that issue.
Yet half of Congress will still insist that broadband access is not an infrastructure issue, especially for rural America. If 1/8th of a city of this magnitude doesn't have access, imagine how bad it is in small states.
What percentage of the US population lives in legitimate rural areas?
That map doesn't show which areas have access to high-speed internet. It shows the rate at which people in those areas subscribe to high speed internet. Huge difference. The access is there. So in other words, just another article pushing for a handout for the poor and/or people who don't take responsibility for the betterment of their children.
If they don't care, why should I? I bust my ass for my kids, give them everything and rarely spend money on myself to ensure that they have everything they need and more. Cry me a river for failed parents who don't do the same for theirs.
Having less internet is a better thing for young people. The more connected you are to the internet, the worse you'll be mentally. Young people under 30 should spend more time outside and have real social lives and not be tied to the internet.
That map doesn't show which areas have access to high-speed internet. It shows the rate at which people in those areas subscribe to high speed internet. Huge difference. The access is there. So in other words, just another article pushing for a handout for the poor and/or people who don't take responsibility for the betterment of their children.
If they don't care, why should I? I bust my ass for my kids, give them everything and rarely spend money on myself to ensure that they have everything they need and more. Cry me a river for failed parents who don't do the same for theirs.
I agree. Most likely people who never should've had children to begin with. Having internet now is the same thing as having a landline phone back in the day. You can't afford it, why the heck you having children?
That map is bull. I used to get Gigbit Fios internet in the part of the bronx where it say "Low"
SMH
See my post for why. It's trying to pull at heart strings because they know most people are too stupid to actually parse what the data they are using means.
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