On a recent Friday morning, Deanna Nye finished making pancakes for her three kids at their Bridgewater home and said it was time to prepare for the school day.
The kids — 10-year-old twins Tyler and Bailee and 15-year-old Trevor— gathered their supplies. But, instead of walking out the front door, they convened in their makeshift classroom in the kitchen.
With a whiteboard leaning against the wall and workbooks and worksheets sitting in piles, it looked like a scene from the early days of virtual learning that many New Jersey families endured during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
