WATCH: New England School Installed In An Old Macy's Department Store

Students and teachers at Burlington High School in Vermont had a unique return to in-person learning last week.

BHS is currently closed due to chemical contamination concerns, so instead, teachers and students held classes at "Downtown BHS," which is a campus transformed from an old Macy's department store, Seven Days Vermont reports.

The school held its first day of in-person classes last Thursday (March 4) after nearly a full year without a school building. Half of the student body will attend classes on Mondays and Thursdays, while the other half will be present on Tuesdays and Fridays.

All students will participate in remote-learning days on Wednesdays.

Seven Days shared a video walkthrough of the new "Downtown BHS" learning facility and its opening ceremony from last Wednesday (March 3) on its YouTube account, which can be viewed below.

“It’s amazing to think that we are standing in what used to be a department store; that we’re greeting people where we used to buy winter coats; reading books where they once sold fine China; taking phone calls in converted changing rooms; and learning science in the old suit racks,” Superintendent Tom Flanagan told Seven Days at the ceremony.

Students have been on a strictly remote schedule this year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with the exception of a half day each week at Edmunds Middle School during the past three months.

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