Last spring's sudden shift to online learning was “how can I put that — OK,” Shelton said, but her daughter missed going to school. Still, “I’m not going to say it was easy” to decide to go with in-person school, Shelton said. The rest will have a virus-altered version of in-person school, learning sometimes in classrooms and sometimes at home. Tuesday was the first day of in-person learning for students in kindergarten through fifth grades whose families chose it. Union President Michael Mulgrew called Tuesday's reopenings “an important turning point” for the school system.

Source: ABC News September 29, 2020 06:55 UTC