Its beginning to look like there is much less of a homework gap than even I
thought
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:54 PM Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote:
> I think as an industry we really need to push that message - that rural
> kids are largely served. Sure you can find a basket case somewhere, you
> always can.
>
> There is a huge push in DC right now over the ‘Homework Gap’. It’s the
> ONLY think one FCC commissioner cares about and she has been beating that
> drum forever. It’s an easy sell in Washington and you all know what
> happens when Washington tries to ‘fix’ something.
>
> We reached out to all of our local school districts at the start of this
> asking for the lists of students without home internet service. The lists
> we received back were considerably smaller than I would have suspected.
> 17 families in one 1800 student district. This was student reported - of
> those a fair number DID have service but apparently just didn’t want to do
> school at home. We provided free service to a number of the remainder, as
> did Spectrum. A few parents never responded, which isn’t a surprise.
> There will always be POS parents that don’t give a crap about the kids.
> The same happened with a couple of other districts. Similar percentages.
>
> The big telco’s are running around Washington screaming ‘homework gap’ and
> ’throw money at us and we will fix it’.
>
> We need to push back on that narrative, and quickly.
>
> If you helped out your students in your coverage area PUBLICIZE the hell
> out of it to the community and the politicians.
>
> Mark
>
> On Apr 14, 2020, at 2:40 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> on an unrelated note, one of the school districts near me informed me
> today they achieved 100 percent access for their remote learners. Thats
> really impressive. They did this themselves over the last year as it turns
> out. they resolved the last of them with some hotspots. Not every day
> theres something good to say about a school district
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:38 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Who *_IS_* the king here?
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
>> On 4/14/2020 11:31 AM, James Howard wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately Chuck said he’s assigning it all to you…….. I kind of
>> thought it was a group effort though.
>>
>>
>>
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>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT virus testing
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>>
>> i blame jaime
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:28 PM James Howard <ja...@litewire.net> wrote:
>>
>> You’re claiming all the credit for that?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1:18 PM
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>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT virus testing
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>>
>> were you here when i broke afmug?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:09 PM Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> IT is pretty ridiculous that we can't talk about anything without
>> breaking lent.
>>
>>
>>
>> Stock markets going to crash ... lent
>>
>> Hurricane response ... lent
>>
>> National preparedness for a pandemic ... lent
>>
>>
>>
>> Facts still matter, or at least I think they do, and we should be able to
>> talk about them without getting all melty about it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:52 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lent
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Andrews
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11:45 AM
>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT virus testing
>>
>> You and I are going to have to agree to disagree. That would be like
>> every state negotiating their own tariffs internationally. Sorry but
>> United States MEANS coordination at a national level. They should have
>> set up a means to determine need and then sent what wasn't available to
>> nowhere. Come ON there was no prep for this, nothing at a national
>> level. Our Federal government has been a joke through all this and is
>> become more so. The CDC sent out initial test kits that the states had
>> to go behind their back to determine that they didn't work. The CDC
>> had gotten it's pandemic response group removed a year ago. Steve, you
>> are about to have the worst of the worst in your location. I surely
>> hope you come out ok, but wouldn't it have been nice to have _some_
>> national preparedness?
>>
>> On 04/14/2020 10:29 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>> > you saw what happened with the "united states" on ventilators, every
>> state
>> > demanded the feds give them every ventilator whether they need them or
>> > not. The feds need to stay completely out of the testing game. its
>> > literally the governor of each states responsibility to make sure he
>> has
>> > people in place to make sure systems operate and communicate up the
>> chain
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:09 PM Robert <i...@avantwireless.com
>> > <mailto:i...@avantwireless.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > At the risk of breaking Lent.. I wish we were the United States
>> > instead of the Competing States and Utah could use some of it's
>> > excess capacity to help out elsewhere while they don't need it...
>> > Seems a waste to not use that capacity while it's there. Maybe
>> > relax the restrictions and chase down contacts and test to see what
>> > the asymptomatic case profile looks like...
>> >
>> > On 4/14/20 8:32 AM, Robert wrote:
>> >> That's some very interesting numbers... And way interesting is
>> >> the ability to perform such good testing...
>> >>
>> >> On 4/14/20 8:29 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> From Utah:
>> >>> SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials said Monday they’re seeing
>> >>> a low demand for testing for the new coronavirus and they don’t
>> >>> know why.
>> >>> “That’s the million-dollar question. We’re really trying to
>> >>> figure out,” said Dr. Angela Dunn, epidemiologist with the Utah
>> >>> Department of Health.
>> >>> Utah reported 60 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday — a
>> >>> smaller rise compared to the previous several days. The new cases
>> >>> bring the state’s tally up to 2,363 confirmed cases out of 45,787
>> >>> people tested.
>> >>> An additional 1,500 people have been tested since Sunday,
>> >>> according to the Utah Department of Health. The state is capable
>> >>> of administering up to 5,000 tests per day.
>> >>>
>> >>
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