It will not be until December 14th before Kewaunee High School students are able to walk their hallways again after they were placed back into the virtual learning model on Saturday. The combination of positive tests among staff and students, along with not having enough faculty members to cover for those in quarantine, led to the decision. Using its cohort model, the school had been operating at two-thirds capacity since the beginning of the month. They had spent almost a month in 100 percent virtual learning before they went to the cohort model, which puts the student body on a three-week rotation to allow them two weeks of in-person instruction and one week virtual. Kewaunee principal Mike Bennett feels for students and families affected by this latest switch.

Bennett says when they do return to class on December 14th, it will be back to its cohort model until their winter break begins on December 23rd. The students will also be 100 percent virtual learning at the beginning of January as a preemptive way to control the spread coming out of winter break. Kewaunee Middle and Grade School will remain open under their current instruction models.