Across the Baltimore region students will soon embark on a school year like none they have known, one that will begin with teachers trying to recreate the culture and liveliness of a classroom on a computer screen.
Every school system in the Baltimore area — and most in Maryland — will start the year operating entirely online in a broad educational experiment no one wanted to try, even as officials hope and plan for a time when students may return to schools. That could be after the first quarter or the first semester.
But while lessons may be delivered differently, school leaders hope the schedules they’ve designed will recreate some of the traditional structure of the day when school begins, after Labor Day.
“This year is a year that will change education forever,” said Nancy Grasmick, a former Maryland state superintendent of schools.
“The pandemic and its duration will force educators and political leaders to rethink the traditional education system from top to bottom,” Grasmick said.
 
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