school day

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noun

any day on which school is conducted.

the daily hours during which school is conducted: The school day here is from nine to three.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Origin of school day

First recorded in 1580–90

In a majority of districts, students are spending some or all of their school days online.
Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic physical education is not canceled|Kelly Field|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
In Northern Virginia, the outages wreaked havoc in online classrooms, bringing the virtual school day to a standstill.
Big Internet outages hit the East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, Slack, Gmail|Rachel Lerman|January 26, 2021|Washington Post
My wife and I watched them during breaks in our oldest son’s virtual school day.
Tallying up a year of loss: A lot of pounds, too many loved ones, countless connections|Jerry Brewer|December 27, 2020|Washington Post
Because it’ll be done over chat, and the school day will end just as her workday starts, she hopes she can make it work.
The economy could lose a generation of working mothers|Bryce Covert|October 30, 2020|Vox

San Francisco, Los Angeles and even San Marcos have already done this, helping thousands of school-aged children in their regions to have supervision while they go about their school days online.
There’s More Local Government Can Do to Help Struggling Families|Chris Cate and Alessandra Lezama|October 9, 2020|Voice of San Diego