want to keep schools open, and that's because we all know that virtual learning for a lot of communities, not just in chicago but across the country, was awful for students. we learned from the american association, academy of p pediatrics, they found that remote learning, which exacerbated existing education inequities was detrimental to the education attainment of students, worsening the growing mental health crisis among children and adolescents, world health organization says that opening schools generally does not significantly increase community transmission. i know you want what's best for your students, why return to that? >> no, remote learning was a really unpleasant experience all the way around, and i think that what we heard from our members in schools is that they'd much rather be there in person. the difficulty is that, you know, you think back to the early days of the pandemic, what people understand is when the