Day: September 14, 2020

(CNN) — Before Saturday, Jodi Degyansky had traveled by air five times since commercial airlines began mandating that passengers wear masks. But she never thought she would end up being booted from a flight for her 2-year-old son eating gummy bears.

“I’m superhumiliated,” said Degyansky, who was flying home to Chicago with her son after visiting with family in Florida. Degyansky said the crew of Southwest Airlines Flight 2420 approached her when her son was eating at the start of the lunchtime flight with his face mask resting under his chin as the flight pushed back from the gate and …

Built in the 19th century, the eight-bedroom house in the pricey St. John’s Wood district covers 6,332 square feet, and boasts a home gym, private lift and cinema room.

Its £32 million ($41 million) asking price also gets you vast living and dining …

Among teachers and students, there’s a widespread understanding that online courses are a poor substitute for the quintessential education experience. They remove the social aspect of schooling, and make the collaboration and group-work aspects of scholarship nearly impossible. Broadly, those concerns have merit; in 2018 the New York Times reported that on average, students in digital classes tended to perform worse than those who studied directly with a teacher.

But since the country entered its unprecedented distance learning experiment this spring, there’s been a growing contingent of students who’ve found themselves actually enjoying their cyberspace syllabus more than the physical …