Don’t blame Gov. Murphy for announcing on Monday that in-person instruction at New Jersey’s schools will not resume in the 2019-20 school year, meaning remote teaching will be the new norm through the end of the academic year. His decision wasn’t of the heavy-handed top-down variety that protesters across the country can’t stand. Instead, the governor had been pushed from the bottom up to keep schools closed.

Melissa McCooley, superintendent of schools for both the Little Egg Harbor and Pinelands Regional school district,…