Sounds like another multi-trillion dollar congressional bill in the making.
Digital challenges? Do black families have genetic disorder that prevents them from using their fingers? Typing on a keyboard or iPhone? Or are they saying black people can’t count from 0 to 10?
So nobody gets nothing. We gotta be fair.
Black students cannot learn in urban school environments because of gangs and violence.
Black students cannot learn at home because gobbledygook reasons.
Maybe the location where the learning takes place isn’t the problem. Maybe it’s a bell curve thing.
We’ve been paying the Al Gore Junior phone tax to give internet to low income needy families since the 1990s. Where does the money go?
This is actually true. I suggest people be allowed to do things live in real life instead of online.
The left thinks black people are too stupid to survive on their own. They should be called on it more often.
In the 21st century Democrats are keeping them ignorant by shutting schools down and holding classes using a format that isn’t available to many blacks.
Has anything really changed in the last 200 years?
Ofcourse...Dems think blacks are stoopid
And the teachers unions decided that these lives did not matter.
The fact is that no matter whatever happens to black people, it is never their fault. If they don’t get vaccinated it’s because of collective memory of the Tuskegee Airmen (/s), if they don’t learn to read by 12th grade, it’s white supremacy, if they find themselves in prison for murder, it’s because of racism. If Target & Walgreen stores close in the neighborhoods...
But it is vital to remember, it is never their fault.
each family should get their own IT specialist to keep their network and PCs up and running
Internet access is a huge problem for poorer people. And to be honest, people who do not own laptops or use them much.
My wife teaches in a disadvantage school, and many of the kids didn’t have a way to do online learning at first.
Sounds like we need another couple trillion dollars.
This sounds like a semi-truck load of triple-distilled BALONEY. I doubt if I’ve ever seen a black kid without a smart phone. And guess what? Those can be used as computers. I guess they never heard of public libraries either, where there are computers and printers available for public use.
“Schools were sending students home with devices for online learning without first ensuring families had reliable, consistent internet access to utilize those devices..”
that’s where parenting comes in.
Besides the current Emergency programs avail right now, internet providers, some time ago, started providing internet for free to low-income homes that had at least on child k-12 in school and $9.95 plans where no free plans were avail.
here’s a blog that runs down some of the many options:
https://www.cabletv.com/blog/low-income-internet#:~:text=Summary%20of%20cheap%20Wi-Fi%20for%20low-income%20homes%20,%20NSLP%20SSI%20%202%20more%20rows%20
I know an elementary school teacher in a medium sized city. She had something like 2/3 of her kids, mostly black, that did not have wi-fi in the home. And the only available device for accessing online stuff was mom’s iphone. The solution, of course, was to give these homes hot spots and ipads, but that didn’t happen until well into the school year.
Ain't gonna happen - black, white, yellow or brown.
“The ultimate goal is... Just give ‘em all doctorates at birth. That ought to even things up. Why have ‘em go to school at all?”
Lie the Wizard of Oz giving Scarecrow a diploma. Now you are smart.
“As two-thirds of the country’s Black children are born into single-parent households,...”
I’d say start with that aspect. But who am I to say anything, I’m just another white male racist earning my way with a home, wife, 3 kids, and a dog.