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www-nytimes-com-5788		Parking Lots Have Become a Digital Lifeline - The New York Times			.html	text/html	1379	85	71	As the sun set on a recent evening in Rutherfordton, N.C., the author Beth Revis drove her green S.U.V. into the parking lot of a closed elementary school and connected to the building's free Wi-Fi. Then, for the third time since the coronavirus pandemic had taken hold, she taught a two-hour writing class from her driver's seat. On federal internet service maps, Louis Derry appears to have broadband access, because a few people in his area of upstate New York have high speeds, defined by the government as 25 megabits per second. Internet access in her area, Ms. Revis said, "has turned from a mild inconvenience to a near impossibility."Credit...Jacob Biba for The New York Times Officials have also pointed families to free parking lot hot spots around the city as a last resort for students, said Monica Lewis, a spokeswoman for the school district.	./cache/www-nytimes-com-5788.html	./txt/www-nytimes-com-5788.txt