By Michelle FlorCruz, IB Times
Schools in China are struggling to adjust to the increasing amounts of toxic air blanketing cities across the rapidly industrializing country. While children in other parts of the world enjoy snow days, China’s severe levels of air pollution bring bad air days, when local governments cancel classes to keep children indoors. Now a Beijing school has resorted to a temporary solution to avoid missing days because of pollution — offering classes online. According to the Shanghaiist news blog, a school in the capital has begun using online tools to teach classes to students who stay home on particularly smoggy days.
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