Four years after the coronavirus pandemic first sent students and teachers into online learning, some school systems in the U.S. are returning to the method during inclement winter weather. They re
Four years after the coronavirus pandemic first sent students and teachers into online learning, some school systems in the U.S. are returning to the method during inclement winter weather. They're doing so in place of scheduling old-fashioned snow days. As a major winter storm hit the Northeast on Tuesday, New York City attempted for the first time since the pandemic to return to remote learning. But the nation's largest school system got waylaid by technology glitches. School systems in Boston and Hartford, Connecticut, among many others, took a different tack, and simply closed for the day.
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When New York City officials got wind of the major winter storm headed their way, they rewound the clock four years, reopened their coronavirus pandemic playbook, and announced that instead of canceling school, teachers and students would once again meet online. Mayor Eric Adams said it was important to give children enrolled in the nation's largest school system stability considering the massive upheaval to education the pandemic had caused throughout the country. Unfortunately for Adams, the p