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Some students return to Boston classrooms for first time since March — but virus rates could keep them home soon
Across Boston on Thursday, teachers and administrators welcomed back about 3,500 of the district’s more than 50,000 students, often with balloons, applause, and elbow-bumping.

Despite all of the fanfare, the return to in-person instruction could be short-lived. The city’s key metric guiding school reopenings — the positivity rate, the percentage of COVID-19 tests that return positive — ticked up from 2.2 percent to 3.5 percent this week. That’s just shy of the 4 percent threshold the city has set for closing schools.

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