'Y2K' Computer Bug Still Creating a Buzz in Schools

By Andrew Trotter

While some school districts have completed their preparations for heading off the "Y2K" computer bug, most won't be making that claim for some time and are likely to be busy well into next January.

Even some districts that have taken all the precautions they can think of have decided it would be safer to close schools on Monday, Jan. 3, and see how the computer systems are working than to bring students back from their winter break into an uncertain situation.

"All of us in the school business, we don't want anything that would give us chaos," said Richard W. Santillo, the assistant superintendent of the North Hills, Pa., district, which decided last month to make next Jan. 3 a vacation day. "I'd hate to have 5,500 children running around with no...