UpdatedSun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:02 pm ET Replies(2) When school resumes after winter break Monday, an number of New Jersey districts will have remote classes. Will New Jersey's schools return to fully in-person instruction at any point in 2021? (Shutterstock) NEW JERSEY — On Monday, school districts across New Jersey return from winter break. And while most of the world will be putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, many students and teachers will be picking up in 2021 where 2020 left off: weighing the struggles of remote instruction against safety concerns in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. As it has with everything else, the pandemic turned schooling on its ear in New Jersey in 2020. Educators, parents and students had to make an abrupt shift from full days in the classroom in early March to connecting completely virtually.