This story is part of “Parenting in a Pandemic,” WTOP’s continuing coverage of how parents are dealing with child care, schooling and more through the coronavirus pandemic.
Distance learning for public schools in Virginia’s Arlington County is canceled Wednesday because of an ongoing network outage.
The Northern Virginia school district said on Twitter that it had suffered a major network outage traced to a fiber cut which occurred late Tuesday afternoon. Its internet provider was not able to restore service in time for the start of virtual classes on Wednesday.
“We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and again, thank you for your patience,” Arlington Public Schools tweeted. “We will continue to provide updates and will notify you when service is restored.”
Students currently do not have access to the online learning portal. Today’s deadline for making Level 2 selections in ParentVUE for preK to fifth grade students has been extended to Oct. 23.
Meal services will not be affected.
In what appears to be an unrelated incident, Arlington County’s website has been down since just before noon Tuesday. The county has posted a temporary page with links to some services — and to its Facebook page.
The police department’s page is also inaccessible — but 911 service has not been affected.
Students in the county started the semester with virtual learning due to the coronavirus pandemic.
WTOP’s Laura Spitalniak contributed to this report.
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