Schools Are Closed and Everyone Still Gets an A

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the standardized assessment of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here.

There are many reasons a principal might close a school. The discovery of a highly toxic construction material, for instance. (I used to be jealous whenever my older sister would get “asbestos days.”) A global pandemic (or swine flu!) is a good reason, too. And plenty of other justifications exist, ranging from the accustomed (blizzards, wildfires, dust storms, frozen pipes, flooded classrooms) to the frightening (school shootings, bomb threats, the occasional dead body) to the unhinged (a skunk intruder, a student urinating on an electrical outlet, a rare cosmic event). But nowhere on that spectrum does “the NFL Draft is in town” belong. And yet, Pittsburgh held three days of Zoom school last week for football, of all things.