Belgian high schoolers demand to get back in-person learning
(WorldNews Belgium)

BRUSSELS (AP) — A late-stage side effect of the coronavirus pandemic has turned up in Belgium, where a group of teenagers is begging to go back to school. Fed up with the COVID-19 restrictions keeping them at home most of the time, students in the last two years of a high school in the city of Liege launched an online petition asking for more in-person class time. “It’s been six months now that we have been going to class only once a week,” the students enrolled at the Ath&eaigu;n&eaigu;e L&eaigu;onie de Waha wrote last week. “Get ready, and open your ears: We want to go to school more often. Yes, yes, you heard it right!” The students’ efforts paid off Tuesday following an online meeting...