One demanding is 58 and she's lived in East Carol Parish in Louisiana for her entire life.

We are in the northeastern part of the state.

We pressed against the Levy and on the other side of the Levy is the Mississippi River.

It's a small rural place, mostly agricultural, on land that was once used for cotton

plantations.

About 7,200 people live there now, more than a third of them below the poverty line, and

the opportunities to work or even shop or dwindling.

We're down to a couple of like one family's dollar store, one dollar general, we're not

a very big community at all.

There are three public schools in the parish.

A parish is the Louisiana equivalent of a county.

And Wanda taught there for almost 33 years.

During the pandemic, when school went remote, she noticed that one of her fifth grade students,

a boy named Nathan, was struggling to stay connected to the Google classroom.

He would be in one moment, out the next moment, and then he kept saying it's not my fault,

it's not my fault.

When Wanda reached out to Nathan's mom, she found out why.

The family could only connect to the internet with dial up.

And my heart dropped.

I thought dial up was the thing of the past.

In 2022, who used dial up?

That was my thought.

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