By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter
Enfield, N.C. The grandmother looked at a borrowed tablet and cried.
The local school system provides free internet now, so that wasn t the problem. The problem, Evelyn Parker said, was she didn t have the first idea how to help her 9-year-old grandson or the 16-year old she serves as guardian to log on for online school.
Thank God, she said, for the learning pod at First Baptist Church.
Like churches, libraries and community centers across North Carolina, First Baptist partnered with the local school system, giving students a place to come during school hours. Halifax County calls them learning pods, where teachers go from folding table to folding table, helping small groups of students, elementary through high school.
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