As we near the end of another July, I recall the sights, sounds and smells that have always signaled me that school will be starting up again soon. Ambiguous feelings of dread and excitement accompanied those signs that there wasn’t much left of summer freedom.

This year is different, though. With about a month to go until September, we still don’t know if school will reopen, and this is unprecedented. For centuries we always knew, but not this year.

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