Huntsville City Schools students return to classes after cyber attack

Huntsville City Schools students return to classes after cyber attack

Najahe sherman.

We want to start with a look at the latest developments on the cyber attack on the huntsville city school district.

Right now - we are still waiting to learn if anyone's personal information was compromised in the attack.

A school administrator told us that pick-up for learning packets is going well... and the district doesn't have a paper shortage from printing them all.

The system's computers remain shut down from that cyber attack.

Waay 31's bridget divers talked to one middle school principal about the adjustments the district is making.

Dan, najahe -- teachers and staff were excited to have students back in the calssroom today at challenger middle school.

And their first priority was getting students back to learning.

Virtual students have packets to take home and work on for the week.

Some students are back in the classroom.

Students in both groups are working on paper.

And teachers are still teaching even though computers and technology can't be used right now.

Bo coln/ challenger middle school principal "we have some very veteran teachers in our building, quite a few that have put together packets for our students so they can continue learning.

And that's the exciting thing to see that.

This is my 22nd year in education and that's the way i kind of learned how to do things."

Now a lot of the packets being sent home with students are review material.

So, missing a week of school last week is not putting students behind in their learning this semester.

Live in huntsville, bridget divers, waay-31 news.

Currently - schools are not sure how long they will have to teach without technology or if the days missed last week will have