Efforts to ban students' cellphones at school is gaining rare bipartisan consensus in Republican and Democrat-led states.

FILE In this Aug. 3, 2020, file photo, a coalition of teachers, students, and families protest during a rally called National Day of Resistance Against Unsafe School Reopening Opening, in New York. But many parents are in no hurry to send their children back to school. The reticence of large numbers of parents complicates reopening plans for districts that also are weighing other factors including resistance of teachers unions. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, school district found 77% of elementary school parents would send their children to school five days a week if offered, according to a Feb. 15 presentation to the school board. But ongoing mediation between the school district and the teachers union over the district’s safety plan will force another delay, Superintendent William Hite said Wednesday.

COVID-19 has robbed a lot from children in 2020, and in many school districts in northern climes it is now stealing the magic of the snow day — waking up to find that school has been canceled and the day will be filled with snowballs and snow angels. “As a parent — and I was a kid once myself — I have to say I feel a little sad that the snow day we used to all know may be gone because it’s really not going to be a day off if we have a snow day,” he said. Superintendent Jeffrey Mohre says remote learning or not, he’ll still call snow days. If snow days go away, so would the fun of calling them, which some administrators have raised to a video art form. “Snow days are a part of our life.