The difference between your kids staying in front of a teacher or a computer screen depends on the number of staff members in the building.

Door and Kewaunee counties eight school districts are scheduled to head back to the classroom for the first time since just before Christmas on Monday. It has been even longer for Washington Island School students, who went to virtual learning in mid-December in response to COVID-19 cases cropping up. Many school districts will also return to optional masking for all of their students after Gibraltar, Washington Island, and Sturgeon Bay kept mandates in place for its youngest learners during the fall.

Sturgeon Bay School District Superintendent Dan Tjernagel says they will continue to work with the Door County Public Health Department on COVID-19 protocols and monitor the data within their buildings as students return to the classroom, but ultimately they need the staff in place to pull in-person learning off.

As of Monday, approximately 21 percent of kids 5-11 and 59 percent of kids 12-17 were vaccinated for COVID-19.