The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling worldwide, compelling educators, researchers, and policymakers to grapple with the implications of these interruptions. However, while the scale of these disruptions may be unprecedented, for many students, interrupted schooling is not a new phenomenon. In this article, I draw insights from the field of Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) for supporting students who experience schooling interruption. In addition, I argue that the extensive accommodations offered to students in the midst of the pandemic must be preserved for future generations of SIFE students—a population for whom similar accommodations have been historically denied. Through this analysis, I demonstrate the need to interrogate traditional notions of interrupted schooling and the students who experience it. This article offers implications for rethinking interrupted schooling, as well as formal education writ large, toward more equitable and socially just ends.

COVID-19大流行干扰了全球的教育，迫使教育工作者，研究人员和政策制定者努力应对这些干扰的影响。然而，尽管这些破坏的规模可能是前所未有的，但对于许多学生而言，中断学习并不是一个新现象。在本文中，我从正规教育中断学生（SIFE）领域中获取见识，以支持经历学校中断的学生。此外，我认为，在大流行期间向学生提供的广泛住宿必须保留，以供SIFE学生的后代使用。通过这种分析，我证明了有必要对传统的中断学校概念和经历过的学生进行审问。