While “teh interwebz” are easily — probably too easily — accessed by middle-class students, it’s still common for poorer households to live without a computer. And while the Internet does not ensure education (cough cough Reddit), not having access can certainly curtail it.
The Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma is one of 28 communities the Department of Housing and Urban Development will focus on connecting with low-cost, high-speed Web access through regional partnerships with Cherokee Communications, Pine Telephone, Suddenlink Communications and Vyve Broadband.
Just beware, Mr. President. Too soon, the commander in chief might be sitting at his own computer and scrolling through the comments sections of a tribal blog about a Kenyan usurper in the White House and wondering why he bothered.
