Bureaucratic incompetence, an out-of-control pandemic and climate change-induced catastrophes led to a disaster in reopening of schools. The ritual of back-to-school has always been as predictable as paying taxes. First-day jitters. Waiting for buses. Bugging kids about homework, after asking the inevitable “How did school go today?” A timeless routine, now broken by massive human failures: a raging pandemic, fires and floods fueled by climate change, and, in New York, a twice-delayed reopening debacle in the nation's largest public-school system that is enraging parents, confusing educators and leading to increasing despair that school as we once knew it will never return.
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