BY MATT PIKE
St. Joesph Post
Bishop Leblond High School in St. Joseph is shifting to online learning for a two-week period.
Since school started, Leblond had been all in-class learning.
Leblond Principal Ann Lachowitzer says Leblond is just being cautious.
"Really the whole reason that we moved to virtual is really for precautionary measures to hopefully keep that spread down and avoid an outbreak of anymore cases" says Lachowitzer
Lachowitzer says one more student tested positive this week, bringing the total cases to three, which has led to a higher number of students quarantining.
"We did have another student test positive so now we're basically sitting with three positive cases of students" Lachowitzer says "and when you do that it technically leads to higher numbers of kids that have to be quarantined that we figured out based on contact tracing, utilizing CDC guidelines."
"When we reached a number that was relatively high, we decided at that point that it was time to just move to virtual learning for a two week period." Lachowitzer adds "to avoid that outbreak of anymore cases to keep our kids healthy and our staff healthy so we can get back to in person learning on November 9th"
Bishop Leblond began virtual learning on Tuesday and hopes to welcome students back to the classroom by Monday, November 9th