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Members of the Coeur d'Alene High School Student Council left notes of encouragement for their peers to find Tuesday during the first day of school. Although education has returned to normal after the COVID pandemic, compassion has become an even more important factor in the classroom.

Members of the Coeur d'Alene High School Student Council left notes of encouragement for their peers to find Tuesday during the first day of school. Although education has returned to normal after the COVID pandemic, compassion has become an even more important factor in the classroom.

September 4, 2024

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Back to school, back to normal
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.