Two weeks after Alabama’s third-largest school system’s network was shut down over a ransomware attack, Jefferson County schools don’t have a sure timeline for returning to normal.
Teachers currently are teaching and grading with pen and paper. They are not able to use the Internet at school.
“It’s not like turning on, flipping a light switch when the lights go on or off and this problem goes away in a day, a week, or even a month,” Jefferson County Superintendent Walter Gonsoulin told employees recently.
