Coeur d'Alene High School senior Will Pratt pays attention in class during the first day of school Tuesday. This year's 12th graders were in seventh grade when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
September 4, 2024
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September 4, 2024 1:07 a.m.
Back to school, back to normal
School is business as usual more than four years after global pandemic
A new school year began Tuesday, welcoming students back to the grand halls of academia. Old friends greeted each other at their lockers, teachers smiled as their classrooms filled up and it was business as usual, without any indication of the learning disruption that took place when the COVID-19 pandemic struck four and a half years ago.