Next week begins winter break for Warrensburg-Latham students and to start their second semester, they will be remote learning for a few weeks.

The Board of Education recently decided on this and Superintendent Cheryl Warner tells Regional Radio News the idea is to mitigate any COVID issues stemming from the holidays before bringing all kids back to the buildings.

As students head to winter break, Warner explains they will not be able to track their students' activity as it relates to any COVID issues. She believes it will allow them to start fresh when students return in late-January.

Out of the Thanksgiving holiday, Warner has been pleased with the COVID trends she is seeing within the district however, she notes it will be very difficult for families to not see each other during Christmas and New Years' holidays, another reason the adaptive pause was enacted.

Warner indicates they keep track of all sorts of COVID data within the district and release it to their website, wl.k12.il.us.