OnthedaysofJan.5toJan.7, the number of students and staff members who tested positive for COVID-19 led to a portion of the student body going to full remote learning last week beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 11.

Numbers of those two days showed 35 positive cases among students, five positive cases among staff members and 50

excluded students due to ex- posure.

Eighth grade and all of the high school took an adaptive pause because they passed into outbreak status according to guidelines issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Macoupin County Pub- lic Health Department. There was a...