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Unfortunately our Chicago Catholic school was one of a by airborneirish

handful to decide to pack it in between Thanksgiving and late January. Apparently 81% of teachers opted to travel for the holidays, whereas families were not going to travel.

Based on that feedback the Archdiocese let us know we had to go remote. I don't know how else to put this but our school is one of a handful of non-hispanic Catholic school to go this route. Whereas the positivity rate in our neighborhood is sub 5%, the other schools that went remote are in areas where positivity is in double digits.

I get that some teachers thought it wouldn't be a big deal to travel to see family over the break they could have waited 2 weeks and gone anytime over a 30 day period. We were informed about this on Friday. The parents and students are disappointed.

Hope you all finish strong.