With the UK positivity rate at almost 30% and the 7-day rolling average of positivity already at 17.5% in Illinois, the people of this top-rated school district in Naperville District 203 demand that our Board of Education and Superintendent announce an adaptive pause to the return to school. These COVID positivity rates are already unprecedented here. If we pause for two weeks, the numbers will start dipping if we continue to mirror UK’s Omicron surge.

Hospitalizations are up almost 100% in the UK, and we do not want our Naperville families to become predictable COVID statistics. That pause will likely save lives and countless hospitalizations, and we can make up the school at the end of the school year. It’s what any rational leader would do in this situation.

UK positivity metrics: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-covid-positivity

Illinois positivity metrics: https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19.html

UK hospitalization metrics: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-daily-covid-admissions