Wabash Valley school district struggles to provide internet coverage due to national demand

Wabash Valley school district struggles to provide internet coverage due to national demand

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School districts around the wabash valley are seeing a rise in the number of students utilizing remote learning.

News 10 bureau chief gary brian tells us how this increase is causing "problems" for one local district.

Pkg gar} "the number of students using remote learning is lawrenceville has surged since school began.

That has left school leaders struggling to make sure everyone has internet."

Right now there are 408 students using remote learning in the lawrence county cusd #20 school district.

That's up 130 since the beginning of school.

"most of them have just made the decision they want to do remote learning.

At the beginning of the year we had 280 that decided from day one that they were just going to do remote learning.

Throughout the year, we've been in school since about august 10th about four weeks now, each week we seem to have a few more kids."

No matter the reason...the increase has caused a problem for the district.

Lawrence county does not have enough hot spots for those remote learners.

This is due to the national demand.

The hotspots the district does have took over a month to get.

The rest are on backorder.

Some area businesses have stepped up to allow students use their free wifi.

However that hasn't not completely solved the problem.

The school district is now working to find more ways to get students connected.

"we've added towers here at the school to provide more internet to the area and that's, things like that we're trying to reach out to some of these places and try to see if we can get.

Like the city park, it would be great if we could find a way to get the city park to where it could have internet access and kids could go there and work on the picnic tables."

Gar} "the district currently has two students in quarantine after testing positive for covid-19.

Working from home in vincennes, gary brian news 10."