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For rural families who lack reliable, high-speed internet, Zoom-style instruction is a luxury.
April 8, 2021
For months, Gus Peters, a high school senior in the East Texas town of Jasper, went where the Wi-Fi was. Some days, he parked himself at the local coffee shop, Jasper Java, ordering a green tea frappé to appease whoever was working the register. Other times, he went to Elijah’s Cafe for a Trail Blazer, the diner’s signature dish of chopped steak smothered in gravy. Often, he spent hours in his gray Ford Escape in the parking lots of Walmart, Lowe’s, or McDonald’s, his sister Grace beside him, both of them on their laptops, doing schoolwork. “I didn’t feel right sitting in the parking lot,” Gus says. “Didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there.” He and his sister were Wi-Fi nomads.
Prosecutors say she subjected a child to mistreatment that caused the boy to eat his own feces.
Credit: KBMT Published: 3:12 PM CST January 19, 2021 Updated: 1:51 PM CST January 20, 2021
JASPER, Texas The court has dismissed the case against a Jasper Independent School District kindergarten teacher who was accused of mistreating a student by causing him to eat his own feces.
67-year-old Mamie Aplon, of Jasper, was arrested around November 2019 after a grand jury indicted her on a misdemeanor charge of “official oppression.”
Prosecutors say she subjected a child to mistreatment that caused the boy to eat his own feces.
The alleged crime happened September 25, 2019 at Few Primary School.