PHOTOS — Canada to Cambodia to Italy: Going back to school around the world
Students have their temperature taken after arriving at their school compound in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sept. 7, as schools reopen across the country with COVID-19 safety protocols in place. (Image credit: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP)
Kids in class at an elementary school in an open-air classroom in Kacuni, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Sept. 8. (Image credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
Students wearing masks attend class at Alessandro Volta High School on Sept. 7 in Milan, Italy. (Image credit: Miguel Medina/AFP)
In the U.S., children head back to class for the first day of school at Wheeless Road Elementary School on Sept. 8 in Augusta, Ga. (Georgia). (Image credit: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle)
A group of kids wearing face masks wait in line — and remain physically distanced from one another — before entering a classroom in Pamplona, Spain, on Sept. 7. (Image credit: Alvaro Barrientos/The Associated Press)
British students practice physical distancing as they take part in a dance session at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts drama school in London on Sept. 8. (Image credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA)
Kids wear masks as they line up before entering class at the John Henry Newman International School in Madrid, Spain, on Sept. 8. (Image credit: Bernat Armangue/The Associated Press)
Caution tape on the floor ensures students remain physically distanced on the opening day of a public school in Santiago, Chile, on Sept. 7. (Image credit: Esteban Felix/The Associated Press)
Palestinian students wear protective face masks in their classroom on the first day of class at a United Nations-run school in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sept. 6. (Image credit: Majdi Mohammed/The Associated Press)
Ajish Prasad drops his daughter off for a YMCA program before class at Elizabeth B. Phin Public School in Pickering, Ont. (Ontario) on Sept. 8. (Image credit: Cole Burston/The Canadian Press)