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rradina
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Chesterfield, MO

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Homework Gap

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Students without internet at home are more likely to be students of color, from low-income families or in households with lower parental education levels. Janice Flemming-Butler, who has researched barriers to internet access in Hartford's largely black north end, said the disadvantage for minority students is an injustice on the same level as "when black people didn't have books."

Computerized Internet access is an income issue. It may be an injustice but it's not based on race. The book issue ended when schools were desegregated. Segregation was definitely racism and conflating the two is also an injustice.