A Year of COVID-19: What It Looked Like for Schools A Timeline 13 min read A Timeline 13 min read
It started with the closure of a single high school in Washington state on Feb. 27, 2020.
A school employee’s relative had gotten sick and tested positive for the coronavirus. The school underwent a deep cleaning and reopened two days later.
One month later, nearly every school building in the United States was shut down, an unfathomable moment. Schools scrambled to stand up a remote learning program some virtual, some by passing out packets of learning materials.
Most of us thought this disruption would last a few weeks, maybe a month.