re: What percentage of schoolchildren in Louisiana don’t have Internet/computer at home?

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Why hasn’t the Louisiana govt started a program to help poor households get internet?

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Pretty sure this is in the works

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but not one peep from anyone about our Autistic son, not a teacher, therapist, principal, secretary, nothing.

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That’s crazy. My wife is a SPED teacher in another parish. They are teaching full bore right now. Doing two zoom meetings a week, filing lesson plans, having office hours at home, mailing letters for summer school, having virtual IEP meetings, etc.

I work from home too and we do it all using the mobile hotspots on our phones. Surprisingly it’s worked pretty well

10% in lafayette Parish

yellowfin, of those 10%, is it purely because of poverty, or could part of it be parental choice not to have one?

I was not necessarily referring to the free government phones. I don’t know how many poor people have those. I just know that poor people generally still have at least one smart phone in their household. There’s no difficulty in posting on Facebook or twitter.

You're getting downvoted but I too think this number is garbage. Oakland has some very rough areas, no doubt, but it isn't all like what you've seen on a cops episode. The median home price is almost $800,000 and it is part of the world's technology epicenter. Even more, the area also happens to have an abundance of social programs and help for the poor--more so than most anywhere in the world.

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If you’re referring to the phones many in this state get from the Fed Govt I do assume you realize they come with a very strict policy for usage and a very limited amount of monthly bandwidth for data. I’m not saying they should have more, but merely pointing out those phones are provided for those people for a reason and their usage is far stricter than many would care to believe.

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Less than 7 million people in the entire country get Lifeline phones with restricted data. Most are elderly. There are over 42 million people who qualify for these phones, and 35 million of them opt to go with more traditional plans to avoid the restrictions you are talking about.

Boadband Coverage by Parish in Louisiana
Parish Name % Broadband Coverage
Acadia 72.9%
Allen 27.3%
Ascension 99.9%
Assumption 99.0%
Avoyelles 26.2%
Beauregard 51.0%
Bienville 28.1%
Bossier 93.1%
Caddo 96.7%
Calcasieu 92.7%
Caldwell 55.9%
Cameron 14.0%
Catahoula 1.1%
Claiborne 59.1%
Concordia 67.5%
De Soto 69.9%
East Baton Rouge 98.5%
East Carroll 70.4%
East Feliciana 61.5%
Evangeline 47.5%
Franklin 56.3%
Grant 37.5%
Iberia 96.8%
Iberville 88.4%
Jackson 62.3%
Jefferson 98.8%
Jefferson Davis 77.7%
Lafayette 98.8%
Lafourche 90.5%
La Salle 2.7%
Lincoln 86.6%
Livingston 98.8%
Madison 68.3%
Morehouse 92.3%
Natchitoches 70.8%
Orleans 98.1%
Ouachita 97.7%
Plaquemines 85.0%
Pointe Coupee 67.6%
Rapides 87.3%
Red River 67.7%
Richland 46.9%
Sabine 27.8%
St. Bernard 99.6%
St. Charles 98.4%
St. Helena 29.3%
St. James 99.8%
St. John the Baptist 100.0%
St. Landry 85.0%
St. Martin 95.4%
St. Mary 93.6%
St. Tammany 99.3%
Tangipahoa 89.8%
Tensas 0.0%
Terrebonne 99.9%
Union 40.4%
Vermilion 96.5%
Vernon 74.8%
Washington 68.9%
Webster 79.5%
West Baton Rouge 94.7%
West Carroll 45.4%
West Feliciana 84.5%
Winn 51.3%

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