D.C. schools stayed open amid surges. Many students stayed home.

D.C. schools stayed open amid surges. Many students stayed home.

For D.C. students who chose to attend classes Tuesday, hallways usually filled with their peers seemed noticeably emptier. Principals have been stressed over how to carry out operations while classes — and at certain points, entire grade levels — went virtual, moving staff members into quarantine. Teachers who were already burned out as a result of the pandemic are navigating how to educate children while dealing with their own anxiety about the spread of the virus.