HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - One of Alabama’s largest public education systems has resumed classes after a cyberattack shut it down for a week.
Students returned to Huntsville City Schools on Monday, though the school system’s computers were still down, AL.com reported.
“Technology is great and our teachers rely on it somewhat,” said Bo Coln, principal of Challenger Middle School. “But school will go on even if we don’t have that.”
Teachers copied assignments onto paper before passing them out to students, and take-home packets were assembled for virtual students, according to AL.com.
The school system - with almost 23,000 students, more than 2,000 employees and about 40 schools - closed early on November 30 because of the cyberattack. Spokesman Craig Williams declined to comment on the nature of the attack or whether the school system had received demands to release the computers.
He said district operations and IT employees worked throughout the weekend to fix the situation.
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