Although most schools remain closed for the rest of the 2019-20 school year in the United States, some countries have started reopening schools during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Students are returning to class — but things don’t look like they did before schools closed when the coronavirus began to spread around the world. Now, social distancing means students and teachers wear masks and sometimes plastic shields, and the kids sit farther apart than they did before.
Countries where students are returning to classrooms include Germany and Denmark in Europe, and China, South Korea and Vietnam in Asia.
The pictures tell the story:
Novice Buddhist monks, seated to maintain social distancing, participate in a religious class at Molilokayaram Educational Institute in Bangkok on April 15. All schools in Thailand were closed earlier than the scheduled school break due to the outbreak. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP)
An Israeli student sanitizes her desk upon the return to school at Hashalom elementary school in Mevaseret Zion, in the suburbs of Jerusalem, on Sunday. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinian high school students receive exam-seating information in a school in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
Students enter the Sadot Elementary School in the town of Pardes Hanna-Karkur in central Israel on Sunday as the country eases lockdown restrictions. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
A student joins a protest of schools reopening in front of the North Rhine-Westphalian Parliament in Düsseldorf, Germany, on Wednesday. (Sascha Steinbach/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Teachers Claudia Mohme and Nicola Witzlau demonstrate the correct application of protective masks on April 23 at the Freiherr-vom-Stein school in Bonn, Germany. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
Students leave a high school in Beijing on April 27. Senior students in Beijing returned to class for the first time after schools were closed down in January. (Wu Hong/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping inspects a primary school in Laoxian township in Ankang city in northwestern Shaanxi Province on April 21. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua/AP)
Students sit spaced apart during an exam at Clementi Secondary School in Hong Kong on April 24. (Jerome Favre/EPA/Bloomberg News)
Students take the Hong Kong Diploma Secondary Education visual arts exam at Clementi Secondary School in Hong Kong on April 24. (Jerome Favre/EPA/Bloomberg News)
Teacher Marie Kaas-Larsen speaks with her students at the Norrebro Park primary school outside in a nearby park in Copenhagen on April 29. Denmark was the first country in Europe to reopen its schools for the youngest pupils on April 15. In addition to practicing social distancing and regular hand-washing, classes must be held outdoors as much as possible to limit the spread of the virus. (Thibault Savary/AFP/Getty Images)
A student washes hands at the Korshoejskolen in Randers, Denmark, on April 15, the first day that the youngest pupils returned to school in the country amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Bo Amstrup/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
After closing amid social distancing restrictions to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, a school reopens on April 27 in Trondheim, Norway. (Gorm Kallestad/AP)
Second- and third-grade students attend a lesson as school reopened in the village of Kvivik, Faroe Islands, on April 20 after being closed for five weeks. (Jens Kristian Vang/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Students take part in class on April 16 at Sindong Elementary School in Seoul. (Yonhap/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
South Korean Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae, center, observes an online class at a high school in Suwon, South Korea on April 9. (Yonhap/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Students walk in the Marie Curie school’s yard in Hanoi on Monday. Students at secondary and high schools in many provinces nationwide have returned to school after a three-month closure. (Luong Thai Linh/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Valerie Strauss is an education writer who authors The Answer Sheet blog. She came to The Washington Post as an assistant foreign editor for Asia in 1987 and weekend foreign desk editor after working for Reuters as national security editor and a military/foreign affairs reporter on Capitol Hill. She also previously worked at UPI and the LA Times. Follow
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