How is your private school coming up with its policy? I know in Chicago, the Catholic schools have been open all year. I don't know what their rate of infection has been vs the public schools there.

Here in Maine, its a county by county thing, and the schools follows what is going on with the infection rate, and will close if things get up to a certain rate---that is what is happening at my parents' nursing home. So now there is only compassionate care visits allowed, and there is a strict protocol, only 20 minutes, one visitor a day, one visitor at a time. The compassionate care part is if they deem a person is dying or in serious, serious crisis. In the summer, people could visit outdoors, but the county rate skyrocketed in November. Now only compassionate care patients can have visitors. No one else.

On the other hand, they all got vaccinated in January, but they are still on the shutdown mode.

Maybe whoever is making this policy plans to wait until everyone is vaccinated to go full classroom mode? I am assuming you are not administrator, but I could be wrong about that? Who is making the policy that you must follow, since you are a private school?