Week of January 10th

Nut Pass
This Wednesday is a paid NUT Pass day. If participating, have your child bring their $2 in an envelope or zip lock bag with their name on it.

Early Release Friday
A reminder that this Friday is an early release. Students will be dismissed after lunch at 11.40.

Update to Covid Protocol.
Last week schools were updated on new CDC and local health department guidelines following positive Covid tests and close exposure with positive people. For the general public, those with a positive test are to stay at home for at least the first 5 days and then can, if non-symptomatic on days 5-10, wear a mask for the last 5 days in public. This change does not hold for school-age children. Schools are still required to continue to enforce a 10 day quarantine for those positive/presumed positive students.
However, those with close exposure to a positive case, but without symptoms themselves, can come to school during their quarantine period under four qualifications: 1.) there are no household members with Covid (in isolation), 2.) they wear a face mask for the quarantine period, and 3.) they test negative at the school their first and every other day afterwards for 7 days (i.e. Day 1, 3, 5, and 7).

Principal’s Note
Friday marks the end of our fall semester and Saint JPII will be, like other schools in Menominee and throughout the country, closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As many hopefully learned in school, in 1964, at 35 years young, pastor Dr. King became the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize following his now famous speech urging non-violent social justice, four years later he was assassinated. Catholic author Flannery O’Connor once wrote, “[that] conviction without experience makes for harshness”. In learning accounts of the 1960s, the successes of the space race aside, there seems to have been much harshness, fear, and suffering in our country. Looking about today, our social landscape also has its own harshness with new ideologies seeking to divide and silence one another. Dr. King’s legacy, like his now immortal speech, should be that despite our differences, we each have the innate dignity of being made in the image and likeness of God, and are therefore brothers and sisters in Christ. That courage to live the greatest commandment should give us hope for a brighter future!
Michael Muhs

Nut Pass