{"id":205406,"date":"2025-10-06T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205406\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:06:07","slug":"decatur-public-schools-back-to-paper-during-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205406\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur Public Schools Back to Paper During Internet Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    (TNS) \u2014 Decatur Public Schools have been without reliable Internet this week.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing issue resulted in Friday classes at Eisenhower High School being canceled. Other buildings are open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It started with a Comcast reboot or something that they did,&#8221; said Superintendent Rochelle Clark. &#8220;It kind of affected all of our networks. So right now we&#8217;re in the process of rebooting everything and getting everyone back up and running, so we&#8217;ve been having some erratic issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district, she said, has been one-to-one with devices for every student, which makes Internet issues a challenge, though it hasn&#8217;t stopped classroom learning. It has just required that teachers and students go back to the old ways of pencil and paper instead of relying on technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we&#8217;re having to revert back to the way it was when we started teaching,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t stopped the educational process. We can live without the technology for a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 the Herald &amp; Review (Decatur, Ill.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(TNS) \u2014 Decatur Public Schools have been without reliable Internet this week. The ongoing issue resulted in Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-205406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}